Light Marble Pound Cake

Name: Light Marble Pound Cake
Prep time: 2 h 15 min
Cook time: 2 h 15 min
Total time: 2 h 15 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 118 milliliters butter, softened; 5 eggs; 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon lemon juice; 237 milliliters milk; 118 milliliters unsweetened applesauce; 59 milliliters unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 118 milliliters vegetable shortening; 59 milliliters water; 59 milliliters white sugar

Need a vegetarian dessert? Light Marble Pound Cake could be an amazing recipe to try. This recipe serves 10. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 386 calories, 8g of protein, and 23g of fat. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 2 hours and 15 minutes. A mixture of vanillan extract, milk, vegetable shortening, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch tube pan.

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Oven

Frying Pan

Whisk the flour and baking powder in a bowl until thoroughly combined.

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Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

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Whisk

Bowl

In a large bowl, beat the butter and vegetable shortening together with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.

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Vegetable Shortening

Butter

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Mix in 3 cups of sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating until smooth after each addition, then beat in the eggs, 1 at a time, beating each in well before adding the next. Beat in the applesauce until the liquid ingredients are smooth.

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Applesauce

Sugar

Egg

Mix in the flour mixture, alternating with the milk, and stir in vanilla extract and lemon juice.

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Vanilla Extract

Lemon Juice

All Purpose Flour

Milk

In a bowl, stir the cocoa powder, 1/4 cup of sugar, and water until the sugar has dissolved and the syrup is smooth.

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Cocoa Powder

Sugar

Syrup

Water

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Bowl

Pour about 3/4 cup of the pound cake batter into the chocolate mixture, and stir to combine.

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Pound Cake

Chocolate

Pour the remaining vanilla cake batter into the prepared tube pan, then pour the chocolate batter over the vanilla batter. With a spoon handle or butter knife, swirl the two batters together a few times (don't overmix) to create a marbled effect.

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Chocolate

Vanilla

Butter

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Butter Knife

Frying Pan

Bake the cake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean, and the sides of the cake pull slightly away from the pan, 70 to 80 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then invert the cake and remove from the pan onto the wire rack to finish cooling completely.

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Toothpicks