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Chocolate and Vanilla Marbled Pound Cake

Ingredients

Cake

  • 3 sticks butter
  • 2 1/2 cups sugar
  • 5 large eggs
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 cup dark cocoa powder
  • 2 tbsp milk

Ganache

  • 2 ounces chopped chocolate
  • 1/4 cup heavy cream
  • 2 tbsp white corn syrup

Instructions

Cake

  • Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour bundt pan and set aside.
    In a stand mixer, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, salt, vanilla, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Mix until incorporated. Add flour and heavy cream. Mix again.
    Remove 3 cups of batter from the bowl and place into another bowl.  Add cocoa powder and tablespoons of milk.  Mix until incorporated.  
    Grease and flour a bundt pan.  Place 1/3 of the chocolate batter in the pan, filling it around the middle part. Then spread down 1/3 of the vanilla batter. Repeat 2 more times so that there are 3 layers of chocolate and 3 layers of vanilla.
    Bake for 60-70 minutes.  Cool on a wire rack.  Invert cake on to a plate or cake stand.  

Ganache

  • Place chocolate and heavy cream in a microwave safe bowl.  Microwave for about 45-60 seconds.  Remove.  Mix chocolate with a spoon until it is fully melted. Add corn syrup.  Drizzle ganache onto the cake.