Marble Loaf Cake Recipe(with Eggless substitute)

Marble loaf cake is a moist vanilla pound cake with pockets of chocolate swirls, baked in a loaf pan. Called by so many names Marble Pound cake or Chocolate swirl Cake. Or marble swirl cake ... This recipe, is buttery, moist, delish. Perfect for your Tea or coffee time snack,

Learn to make this delicious, rich Chocolate Vanilla Marble cake

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What is a marble pound cake ?

A vanilla pound cake with swirls of chocolate cake batter. baked in a loaf or any other kind of pan. A marble cake remains the same irrespective of the pan it is baked in,

This Marble loaf cake recipe is

• An old fashioned marble pound cake recipe that is moist and buttery.
• A tight crumb cake. Your coffee shop kind of cake.
• An amazing loaf cake recipe
• Made with simple ingredients from your pantry
• Perfect for tea/coffee time snacks, tea parties.
• Absolutely make ahead cake, that you can take for potlucks, bake sales and so much more
• teams up with any frosting or drizzles - Frost it up to make it even more decadent
• Best to make for a crowd

Frosting Recipes >> Best fudge frosting, Dark ganache or simple whipped cream

How to make Marble pound cake from scratch

Ingredients you will need

1. Flour - just all purpose flour here. No other substitutes.
2. butter - room temperature unsalted butter is all you need. If using salted, then omit the salt in the recipe
3. sugar - fine granulated white sugar, no brown nor any other kind of sugar
4. Eggs - Large whole eggs here.
5. Cocoa powder - plain unsweetened good quality cocoa powder. processed or pure anything is fine here
6. milk - room temperature whole full fat milk
7. leavening agents - baking powder and baking soda used here.

For more on Baking powder & soda >> Read this article on baking powder and soda

Can you make this chocolate marble cake eggless ?

And omit the whole milk in the recipe

Mixing, Marbling & Baking This Chocolate Swirl Cake

To start, always room temperature ingredients. Measured and kept in place

Cream butter and sugar, until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one by one or buttermilk. and milk

Then sift in flour leavening agent and salt. Fold until you get a smooth batter

For the Chocolate batter,

Remove one ¾ cup of batter to a bowl, sift in ¼ cup of cocoa powder add 2 tablespoon of milk. whisk and set aside

How do you make a marble effect cake?

Swirling the chocolate batter to get the marbling effect

So how do you marble pound cake ?

• First layer the bottom of the loaf pan with vanilla pound cake batter(the white batter)
• Then add in few spoons of chocolate batter scattering over the vanilla cake batter.
• Then add in the second layer of vanilla pound cake batter. Repeat.
• You continue this until ¾ of the pan is filled.
• After the final layer. Use a skewer or a tooth pick to swirl. Just random round movements
• Tap to release the air bubble.
• Bake in a preheated oven until the center is baked and tooth pick comes out clean.
• Let it cool before serving

How long to bake in the loaf pan ?

Any batter in a loaf pan will need to be baked for a longer time, considering the depth of the pan. It will take a while to bake. SO I suggest using low temperature and a longer time.

For this recipe - i recommend 170deg c/340degF baking for about 50 to 55 mins - but check in between. In case the top is browning too much cover it with foil and bake longer.

For more on baking with loaf pans >> All you need to know about baking with loaf pans

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Is loaf cake the same as pound cake?

A loaf cake can be any kind of batter that can be baked in a loaf pan, even a quick bread is baked. And not necessarily that every loaf cake is a pound cake. It only refers to the type of cake corresponding to the pan it is baked in

Pound Cake is a just one type of cake batter than can be baked in a loaf

Storing & shelf Life

Marble cakes are best stored at room temperature and stays well for about a week

However, you can refrigerate it for more than a week. Frozen pound cakes stay good for atleast 2 months.

To Freeze pound cake either slice them or store them as a whole loaf.

You will have to thaw them to room temperature before serving refrigerated or frozen pound cake

So how do you thaw frozen cakes

You will bring it to the refrigerator overnight. And let it thaw there.

Then bring it out to room temperature for atleast 1 hour before serving

SERVING IDEAS FOR MARBLE LOAF CAKE

The Cake will need to cool completely before slicing and serving

While there are zillion ways of serving these cakes. I recommend these

1. Place the entire loaf cake on the serving table/dinner table / brunch table - keep a nice serrated knife. lay some accompaniments, like fruit compotes, nut butters, chocolate spreads, sauces, fresh fruits.
2. For Tea or Coffee - Slice them up and serve it with any accompaniments or just your favourite beverage or drink - Coffee or tea or some fresh juice
3. To Carry them for pot lucks - Wrap the entire cake in a cling film, Saran wrap. slice them up just before serving. top it off with some frosting or glaze.

TO BAKE FOR A CROWD

Baking for a crowd ? This is absolute one of the best loaf cake recipes for entertaining a crowd.

This recipe can be doubled or quadrupled. Works just fine.

Pans you can use to bake this marble cake

In a loaf pan

One recipe yields about 1 standard loaf pan 7 to 8 slices in each close to about 1.25 inch thickness each. So you can increase the number of batches according to your requirement.

Another way to bake for a crowd is using a tray tin or a sheet pan

This recipe is sufficient for a ¼ sheet pan - 9x13 inch pan

Marble Bundt Cake

A 9'' pan - This recipe is sufficient for one 9 or 10" bundt pan.

tips for the best loaf cake always

1. Always room temperature ingredients.
2. Creaming the butter and sugar until fluffy is important.
3. Adding egg one after the other, will make sure that each egg is blended well before the next one is added.
4. Measure your ingredients out before starting to mix. And measure by weight I suggest using a good weighing scale for precise measurements.
5. Greasing your pan is very important - use a nonstick spray or use butter. To line a pan perfectly >> Read this
6. Bake slow and for a longer time. Which means lower temperature for an extended time - This helps in baking evenly and just right.
7. The loaf needs to be completely cooled before slicing. Let it sit in the pan for atleast 10mins before de-moulding.

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