Name: Marble Pound Cake
Ingredients: 1 (8-oz) bar cream cheese, room temperature; 3 stick unsalted butter, softened; 3 cup granulated sugar; 6 eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour; 4 tbsp Dutch processed cocoa powder

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Marble Pound Cake

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Ingredients Method

Ingredients

1 (8-oz) bar cream cheese, room temperature
3 stick unsalted butter, softened
3 cup granulated sugar
6 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
4 tbsp Dutch processed cocoa powder

Method

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease a long loaf pan or 12-cup tube pan.
In the bowl of a stand mixer, mix together cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add sugar to butter mixture and cream until light and fluffy. Add eggs, two-at-a-time, and vanilla. Mix well. Mix in flour until well combined. Pour 3/4 of the batter into loaf pan.
Add cocoa to the remaining 1/4 of batter and mix well. Dollop the chocolate batter on top of the plain batter. With a knife swirl batter to form a marble look.
Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until cake tester inserted near center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack before turning out onto serving platter.