Marble Swirl Pound Cake
A family recipe for Marble Swirl Pound Cake from the Nelson Family Recipe Book.
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 3 ½ cups cake flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 4 eggs
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup cocoa
Instructions
- 1
Grease or spray 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan; set aside.
- 2
In a large bowl with mixer at low speed, beat sugar and butter or margarine until blended.
- 3
Increase speed to high; beat until light and fluffy.
- 4
Add eggs and milk; beat until well mixed.
- 5
Add flour and remaining ingredients except cocoa; at low speed, beat until well mixed, constantly scraping bowl with rubber spatula.
- 6
Increase speed to high and beat batter 4 minutes longer, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula.
- 7
Preheat oven to 350º.
- 8
Remove about 2 ½ cups batter (about half) to medium bowl.
- 9
With wire whisk or fork, beat cocoa into batter in medium bowl until well blended.
- 10
Alternately spoon vanilla and chocolate batters into prepared pan.
- 11
With blade of knife, cut and twist through batters in a zig-zag pattern to obtain marbled effect. Only go around the pan once.
- 12
Bake one hour or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
- 13
Cool cake in pan on wire rack 10 minutes, then remove and cool completely on rack.
- 14
Slices best after cooling.