Best Chocolate Swirled Pound Cake Recipes

POUND CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE SWIRL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 9 by 5-inch loaf pan. Beat sugar and butter in large bowl until light and fluffy. Stir flour, baking powder, and baking soda into butter mixture. Beat just until blended.Add sour cream and vanilla and beat just until smooth.Beat in eggs.
• Spread half of batter into prepared pan. Mix grated chocolate and cinnamon in small bowl. Sprinkle half of chocolate mixture over batter. Spread remaining batter over chocolate. Sprinkle with remaining chocolate mixture. Using knife, swirl chocolate mixture into batter.
• Bake pound cake until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 55 minutes. Transfer pan to rack and cool cake 10 minutes. Using small knife, cut around sides of pan to loosen cake. Turn cake out onto rack and cool completely.(Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Wrap in foil and store at room temperature)

CHOCOLATE-VANILLA SWIRL BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Spray a 12-cup swirled bundt cake pan, such as Nordic Ware Heritage Bundt Pan, with cooking spray.
• Whisk together the flour and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk together the milk, vanilla, eggs and yolks in a second medium bowl.
• Beat the butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Gradually pour in the granulated sugar, 1/4 cup at a time, and beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
• Turn the mixer to low and add the flour mixture 1/4 cup at a time until fully incorporated, about 3 minutes. Add the egg mixture and beat until the batter is combined, about 3 minutes.
• Spoon 4 cups of the batter into a large resealable plastic bag. Add the cocoa powder to the bowl with the remaining batter and beat on low speed until combined, about 1 minute. Spoon the chocolate batter into a second large resealable plastic bag.
• Snip the corners off the bags. Working in alternating colors, pipe strips of batter into the ridges of the pan (the pan has an odd number of ridges so you will have two of the same batters next to each other). Use a long wooden skewer to spread the strips of batter in the ridges, taking care not to let batter spill over into the neighboring color. Pipe the rest of the batter into the pan in large dollops, alternating flavors as you go. Gently smooth the top of the batter with an offset spatula.
• Bake until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean and the top springs back when lightly pressed, 55 to 60 minutes. Cool the cake on a rack for 10 minutes. Invert the cake onto the rack to cool completely, about 2 hours.
• For the glaze: Meanwhile, whisk together the confectioners' sugar and milk in a medium bowl to make a thick but pourable glaze, adding a little more milk or sugar to get the right consistency. Drizzle the glaze into the ridges of the cake.

JAN'S DARK CHOCOLATE SWIRL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Beat butter and cream cheese together in a bowl using an electric mixer until well combined. Add sugar and beat until fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Mix almond extract, vanilla extract, salt, and baking powder into creamed mixture; beat in 2 eggs. Add 1 cup flour and mix well. Add 2 eggs and mix well. Add 1 cup flour and mix well. Add last 2 eggs and mix well. Add remaining 1 cup flour and mix until batter is smooth.
• Remove 2 cups batter and place in a separate bowl; stir in cocoa powder. Pour 1/2 of the plain batter into the prepared pan; add 1/2 of the chocolate batter and swirl with a knife. Repeat with remaining plain batter and chocolate batter, swirling gently.
• Place pan in the middle rack of the preheated oven; bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 90 minutes.

CHOCOLATE VANILLA SWIRL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Spray and flour a loaf pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat the butter until light and fluffy. Gradually add the applesauce, sugar and vanilla to the butter. Add the eggs 1 at a time, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Stir the flour into the butter, on low, alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour.
• Put 2/3 of the batter in the prepared loaf pan. Add the fudge sauce and the baking soda to the remaining batter and mix until just blended. Spoon the chocolate mixture on top of the batter in the pan and swirl with a butter knife.
• Bake for approximately 1 hour or until the cake pulls away from the sides of the pan. Cool 10 minutes in the pan. Remove from the pan and cool completely.

CHOCOLATE SWIRL MARBLE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F Grease a 10" tube pan.
• Beat sugar and butter until blended; then increase speed to high and beat until light and fluffy.
• Add flour and remaining ingredients EXCEPT cocoa. Beat at low speed until well mixed, scraping bowl often; then increase to high and beat 4 minutes longer, scraping bowl as needed.
• Scoop out 2 1/2 cups of batter into a small bowl. Whisk in cocoa powder.
• Alternately spoon vanilla and chocolate batters into prepared tube pan. Using a knife, cut and twist through batter to create a marble effect.
• Bake 60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Then run a spatula or knife around the pan to loosen the cake. Remove cake and cook on a wire rack.

CHOCOLATE SWIRL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350-degrees F.
• Spray loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray and flour pan.
• Beat sugar and butter in large bowl until light.
• Sift flour, baking powder and baking soda and add to butter mixture.
• Beat until blended.
• Add sour cream and vanilla.
• Beat until blended.
• Beat in eggs.
• Spread half of batter into prepared pan.
• Mix chocolate, cinnamon and 2 TB sugar in small bowl.
• Sprinkle half of chocolate mixture over batter in pan.
• Mix remaining chocolate mixture into remaining batter in bowl.
• Pour remaining batter into pan.
• With a knife, swirl chocolate mixture into batter.
• Bake pound cake for 50-60 minutes or until toothpick (or other tester) comes out clean.
• Let cool completely before serving.

MARBLE SWIRL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, with electric mixer at low speed, beat sugar and butter or margarine until blended. Increase speed to high, and beat until light and fluffy. Add flour, milk, baking powder, vanilla, salt, and eggs; beat at medium speed until well mixed. Increase speed to high, and beat batter 4 minutes longer.
• Remove about 2 1/2 cups batter to a medium bowl. With a wire whisk or fork, beat cocoa into batter in medium bowl until well blended.
• Grease a 10 inch tube pan. Alternately spoon vanilla and chocolate layers into prepared pan. With a large spoon, cut and twist through batters to obtain marbled effect.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool cake in pan, and on a wire rack, for 10 minutes. Remove cake from pan, and cool completely.