Pumpkin Chocolate Marble Bundt Cake Food

PUMPKIN CHOCOLATE BUNDT® CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 12-cup Bundt pan with no-stick cooking spray; set aside.
• Combine sugar, butter and vanilla in bowl; beat at medium speed until creamy. Add 1 egg at a time, beating well after each addition. Place 1 cup batter into another bowl; set aside.
• Add pumpkin to remaining batter in bowl; beat at medium speed until well mixed. Add 1 3/4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. Beat at low speed until well mixed. Spoon half of pumpkin batter into prepared pan.
• Add melted chocolate to reserved 1 cup batter; beat at medium speed until smooth. Add remaining 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; continue beating until well mixed. Add half & half; beat until well mixed.
• Drop chocolate batter by tablespoonfuls over pumpkin batter in pan. Top with remaining pumpkin batter; spread to edges of pan. Swirl chocolate batter into pumpkin batter with a table knife.
• Bake 50-60 minutes or until a few moist crumbs cling to toothpick inserted into center. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Invert onto serving plate; cool completely.
• Pour whipping cream in 2-cup glass measuring cup; microwave 45-50 seconds or until mixture comes to a boil; add chocolate chips. Let stand 1 minute; stir until smooth. Spread glaze over top of cake.

CHOCOLATE-PUMPKIN MARBLE CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, with a mixer on medium speed, beat butter and sugar until well blended; add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; beat in vanilla.
• Scrape half the mixture into another bowl.
• Pumpkin batter: beat pumpkin into half the butter mixture until well blended; in another bowl, stir together 1 3/4 Cup flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves; add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and beat on low speed or fold in with a flexible spatula just until blended.
• Chocolate batter: in another bowl, mix remaining 1 cup flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 tsp salt and the cocoa; add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk to the other half of the butter mixture (starting and ending with flour mixture), beating after each addition just until blended.
• Spoon half the pumpkin batter into a buttered and floured 12-cup bundt-cake pan; drop half the chocolate batter by spoonfuls over (but not enterly covering) the pumpkin batter; repeat to spoon remaining pumpkin and chocolate batters into pan.
• Gently run the blade of a butter knife around the center of the pan several times, then draw the knife across the width of the pan in 10-12 places to swirl batters.
• Bake in a 350° oven until a wood skewer inserted into center of cake comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 55-60 minutes.
• Let cake cool 10 minutes in the pan, then invert onto a rack, lift off pan, and cool cake completely before glazing.
• Chocolate glaze: in a heat proof bowl or the top of a double boiler, combine semisweet chocolate, whipping cream, butter and corn syrup; Bring an inch or two of water to a boil in a pan that the bowl can nest in, or in the bottom of a double boiler, then remove from heat and place the bowl with the chocolate mixture over the water and let it stand, stirring occasionally, until melted and smooth, about 10 minutes.
• Pour warm chocolate glaze over the top of the cake, letting it drip down the sides; sprinkle glaze with peanuts if desired.
• Let stand until the glaze is set, about 2 hours, or chill 30 minutes.

MARBLED PUMPKIN CAKE

Steps:

• Combine pumpkin and cinnamon in a bowl.
• Combine cake mix, eggs, sour cream, sugar, oil and water in a large bowl.
• Beat for 2 minutes.
• Stir 2 1/2 cups batter into pumpkin mixture.
• Alternate plain and pumpkin batters into a 10 cup bundt or tube pan.
• Once done swirl mixture.
• Bake 375 degrees for 40- 45 minutes.
• When cool sprinkle with powdered sugar.