Pumpkin Marble Cake

Moist pumpkin marble cake is a pumpkin spice cake with a swirl of chocolate throughout! Learn the easiest way to make marble cake with this easy recipe.

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1 10

Servings servings

Calories 300kcal

Author Kate @ I Heart Eating

Equipment

Bundt Pan

Ingredients

Pumpkin Cake

1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar packed
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup buttermilk lowfat ok
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
15 ounce can pumpkin puree
3 cups all-purpose flour properly measured
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
½ teaspoon salt

Chocolate Swirl

⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons buttermilk

Topping

Powdered sugar

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour a 10-12 cup bundt pan. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine sugars, oil, and buttermilk until blended.
1 ¼ cup granulated sugar, 1 cup brown sugar, ½ cup vegetable oil, ½ cup buttermilk
Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
3 large eggs
Stir in vanilla extract and pumpkin puree.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 15 ounce can pumpkin puree
Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
3 cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon salt
Stir into batter until combined.
Scoop out 1 ½ cups of batter into a separate bowl.
Add cocoa powder, granulated sugar, and buttermilk to the batter you just scooped out.
⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, ¼ cup granulated sugar, 2 tablespoons buttermilk
Stir to combine.
Add pumpkin spice to pumpkin batter, and mix in.
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
Add one cup of pumpkin batter to bundt pan.
Top batter with 1/4 cup chocolate batter.
Repeat with 1/2 cup pumpkin batter on top of chocolate batter.
Continue repeating layers with remaining batter.
Bake 50-65 minutes, or until toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
Cool in pan 10 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack.
Remove pan, and cool completely.
Dust with powdered sugar just before serving, if desired.
Powdered sugar

Notes

Oil: Feel free to use a different type of neutral oil like canola oil or light olive oil in this recipe.
Buttermilk: If you don't have buttermilk, you can make a homemade buttermilk substitute with this recipe.
Pumpkin puree: Be sure to use pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie mix. Pumpkin pie mix has sugar and spices already added to it.
Flour: To properly measure the flour, stir, lightly spoon into the measuring cup, and level.
Nutrition values are estimates.

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