The pan I used is also called a swirly pan and it sure looks pretty when baked but I have always been a bundt pan lover.
Any bundt pan makes baking this cake or any cake so easy.
This is a classic pound cake and the buttery tender slice is perfect just the way it is with coffee, tea, or a cold glass of milk.
Not to mention it's so pretty dressed up with sliced fresh fruits with cream or dusted with powdered sugar.
If you love vintage style cakes, don't forget to try our Chocolate-Mayonnaise Cake or Hot Milk Cake, two blue ribbon winners!
Either way, this simple cake is great anytime and especially to serve to friends and family at dinner get-togethers.
Scroll down to my printable recipe card for this easy recipe.
Pound Cake
This is a rich cake and made from scratch.
With just a few ingredients, you will have a bakery tasting pound cake to serve.
The cake design with a marble effect has always been perfect for presentation and makes a special design.
Ingredients You Will Need
scroll to the printable recipe card for exact measurements
- butter, room temperature
- regular white sugar
- vanilla extract
- large eggs
- sour cream
- baking powder
- baking soda
- salt
- flour
- milk
- unsweetened cocoa powder
- Optional:chocolate chips
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Tips:
- Fold in sour cream don't over mix
- Always use room temperature butter don't over cream
- Don't over mix the batter
- Don't over bake the cake use the toothpick method
- Layer the vanilla and chocolate batter and don't over swirl the batter
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Tender Cakes
With swirls of tender vanilla and fudgy chocolate cake, this marble looks fancy but tastes like pure old-fashioned and it's been a favorite cake for years.
It's a tender marbled butter Cake.
Easy to make with one batter by just separating a little to add some cocoa powder to become one of the most delicious two flavored pound cakes ever!
Be careful not to over-marble the batters or the flavors will get pushed all together as a mess!
Just a few swirls around the pan with a knife will do the trick.
Marble Pound Cake
Yield: 12
Prep time: 15 MCook time: 1 hourTotal time: 1 H & 15 M
This bundt cake is the best of both worlds, its a sour cream buttery pound cake swirled in a marble pretty effect in both chocolate and vanilla in flavor. The prettiest pound cake ever with a vintage look and old fashioned taste!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 2 cups regular white sugar
- 2 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 3/4 cups flour
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- Optional: 1/2 cup of chocolate chips
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Prepare a bundt pan or any pans you prefer greased and floured. (This will need to hold 10 cups in batter)
- Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, around 3 minutes.
- Blend in the vanilla, eggs, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and mix until smooth.
- Slowly add the flour and the milk in alternating additions, beginning and ending with the flour. Mix in the sour cream until just combined.
- Stir in the chocolate chips if using.
- Divide the batter in half in 2 bowls.
- Blend the cocoa powder into one half of the batter and leaving the other plain.
- Spoon alternate layer portions of the batter into the prepared pan, alternating chocolate, and vanilla.
- Use any kind of knife to swirl the batter, creating the marble effect.
- Bake for 60 minutes, and use the toothpick method inserted into the center.
- Cool the cake for around 15 minutes before inverting loosening with a plastic knife is necessary.
- Dust with powdered sugar or top with sliced fresh fruits and whipped cream.
- Note: this cake tasted great plain.