Marble Bundt Cake with Truffle Center
Yield: 16 servings
Ingredients
Truffle Center
- 3/4 cup whipping cream
- 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
Marble Bundt Cake
- 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs at room temperature
- 2 cups sour cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped and melted
- 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips
- 3/4 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
Truffle Center
- Heat cream to just below a simmer and pour over chopped chocolate. Stir to melt and then chill until firm, about 3 hours.
Marble Bundt Cake
- Heat oven to 300 degrees F and grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan.
- Beat butter and sugar together with electric beaters until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Beat in sour cream and vanilla extract.
- Sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and add to cake in three additions, mixing gently after each addition.
- Remove 3/4 cup batter and set aside. This is extra batter for a cook's treat.
- Remove 2 cups of batter and stir in melted bittersweet chocolate.
- Stir dark chocolate chips into white cake batter and stir white chocolate chips into dark batter.
- To assemble, layer half of the 2 cake batters into prepared Bundt pan. Run a knife through to swirl gently.
- Roll and shape chilled chocolate into "truffles" and lay side-by-side in a circle around the Bundt pan.
- Top with remaining batters and run knife through to swirl gently.
- Bake cake for 50 to 60 minutes, until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Allow cake to cool for 20 minutes before turning out to cool completely.
- For the remaining 3/4 cup batter, scoop into greased and floured muffin cups.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes at 300 degrees F or until a wooden pick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Allow cake to cool completely before slicing. You will unveil a beautiful truffle center in each slice!
