Pumpkin Spice-Chocolate Marble Loaves
These are super moist and full of pumpkin and chocolate flavor!Plan Ahead Note: the butter needs to be softened to room temperature.
Ingredients
Basic Batter
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 2 ½ cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 large egg yolks
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ cup sour cream
Pumpkin Spice Batter
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup canned pumpkin
- 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
Chocolate Batter
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa sifted
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
Instructions
Basic Batter
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Beat butter and sugars with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes.
- Add eggs and egg yolks 1 at a time, beating on medium-low after each addition.
- Add vanilla; beat just until incorporated.
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Add to butter mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture, beating on low speed just until combined after each addition.
- Divide Basic Batter evenly between 2 large bowls.
Pumpkin Spice Batter
- Add flour, canned pumpkin, and pumpkin pie spice to 1 of the Basic Batter bowls; stir together until completely combined. Set aside.
Chocolate Batter
- Add cocoa, sour cream, and instant coffee granules to remaining Basic Batter bowl, and stir until smooth.
- Drop large spoonfuls of the Pumpkin Spice Batter across the bottom of eight 5 ¾" x 3 ¼" mini loaf pans.
- Repeat with Chocolate Batter.
- Swirl batters with a long pick, moving back and forth from one end of the pan to the other.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into the center of a loaf comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack.
Notes
Recipe from Southern Living Magazine.