Marble Mini Bundt Cakes
This is a delightfully fine-crumbed, moist marble cake that’s so good for any occasion! This marble cake is a winner with its rich chocolatey flavour from melted dark chocolate swirled into vanilla butter cake. Yummm-guaranteed!
Here are marble mini bundt cakes that may be muffin-size small, but incredibly big on flavour and texture.
I know it’s been a while since I’ve shared a sweet treat with you. Not since my post on this amazing famous lemon cake.
I reckon you’ve probably got your favourite marble cake recipes tucked away in a cookbook somewhere. I’m guilty of hoarding marble cake recipes too!
I happen to love the very rich buttery kind of marble cake. Just like this soft and moist chocolate and vanilla marble cake.
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Pin this on PinterestBut if you’ve got room for discovering a couple more worthwhile marble cake recipes out there, celebrity chef Anna Olson’s recipe is one that I think is a real keeper.
A delicious adaptation of Anna Olson’s marble mini bundt cake recipe
I happen to be a huge fan of Anna Olson. But it has been a challenge for me to keep up with episodes of her extremely popular baking series, Bake with Anna Olson.
On the odd chance that I actually do, it’s been exactly about making the cakes I love!
Hence, these little beauties – marble mini bundt cakes.
The marvellous thing about watching Anna do it is that it really is as easy, effortless, and doable as she makes it all look.
So much so that you just wanna get off your sofa, make a beeline for your kitchen and whip up those sweets yourselves.
For me, it was like right that instant after that episode ended!
And these were how my marble mini bundt cakes turned out! Ooooh, isn’t that a pretty sight?
You wouldn’t be disappointed. Especially when the process was really as easy as Anna made it look.
One of the best things about this particular recipe is that it gives you a versatile cake batter to build upon and experiment with.
As Chef Anna Olson always says, bring her recipes into your own kitchen and have fun with them!
How to make these moist and tender mini marble bundt cakes
This recipe is almost as originally written with just a couple of tweaks. So here’s my adaptation of Anna Olson’s marble mini bundt cakes.
For a finer and lighter crumb, use cake flour in place of plain flour.
The lower protein content of cake flour (7-8%) or pastry flour (9%) versus all-purpose or plain flour (10-12%) translates into less gluten development.
This helps give these marble mini bundt cakes their lighter and airy structure.
It’s good to know your chocolate!
Dark, bitter, bittersweet or semisweet chocolate all vary on the bitter-to-sweet taste spectrum.
The original recipe has generous amounts of sugar, and it’s all good if you like your cakes on the sweet end.
However, I opted to use dark or baking chocolate in place of bittersweet or semisweet chocolate for their little to no sugar content.
For me, the sweetness was just spot on. So, do TASTE your chocolate, and reduce sugar content if you feel the need to.
Don’t be afraid to use less sugar – these marble mini bundt cakes will still turn out moist!
Anna Olson’s original recipe has quite a fair amount of sugar. Truthfully, having lots of sugar isn’t necessarily a bad thing in baking, since sugar is what makes cakes moist.
Just so you know, this recipe has slightly less sugar.
It’s sweetness is just right for my family to appreciate. I’ve been really careful not to reduce too much.
So you can rest assured that these mini bundt marble cakes are deliciously moist.
Use whipping or heavy cream in place of sour cream for moistness.
This was purely a practical swap of ingredients as sour cream is not an ingredient that I usually have at home.
I have used whipping cream for a whole lot of bakes, including these not-to-be-missed, must-try buttery, flaky English scones.
Whipping cream also has a much higher dairy fat content than sour cream, thus helping to moisten the cake.
I also added a little lemon juice to infuse a little tang, but it’s hardly noticeable in the end even with 2 tablespoons’ worth.
No mini bundt cake pan? No problem!
Baking in mini bundt cake pans
The recipe batter makes 12 small mini bundt cakes if you’ve got the mini bundt pan with 12 bundt moulds.
Just remember to adjust your baking time. The smaller the individual mini bundt cakes, the shorter the time it takes to bake through.
I happen to have a mini bundt pan that makes 6 medium-sized ‘mini’ bundt cakes. These bake to the size of large muffins, more or less, and was enough to use up all the batter. They take about 20 minutes to bake.
Baking in muffin pans
It’s more likely that most of us have muffin pans, even mini muffin pans. If you do, you can bake in these pans as well.
The baking times might be slightly longer than baking in equivalent mini bundt cake pans. It depends on the size of your muffin pans.
Unlike mini bundt moulds, it will take more time to cook through the batter in a muffin mould, without the inner ring to conduct heat.
Baking in regular cake pans
Alternatively, you can also bake a whole marble cake in a regular cake pan.
Baking times will vary quite differently, depending on the size and depth of the cake batter in the pan you use.
Whole cakes may take 35 to 45 mins, perhaps even longer. You’ll want to keep a careful eye on your timer and do a skewer test to check when the batter is cooked through.
I usually start checking about 5 minutes before the suggested time, depending on the size of your mini cakes, muffins or whole cake.
If it’s still not quite there yet, then check every 5 minutes after, till they’re done.
For a bit of indulgence, top with Anna Olson’s chocolate ganache!
Finally, if you’re feeling really indulgent, you can top these little beauties with this decadent chocolate frosting. You can get the original recipe in full here.
So let the baking begin! I’d love to see what you all come up with!
More recipes you may like:
- Chocolate Bundt Cake with Chocolate Glaze
- Soft & Moist Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cake
- Marble Chiffon Cake with Cocoa and Vanilla Swirls
- Fresh Cranberry Bundt Cake
- Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake with Lemon Glaze
- Orange Pound Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Glaze
Do share your baking creations on INSTAGRAM if you’ve tried this, and tag @foodelicacy and #foodelicacy ‘cos I’d love to see!
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Marble Mini Bundt Cakes
Ingredients
- 115 g unsalted butter slightly cooler than room temperature
- 175 g caster sugar
- 2 large eggs just about room temperature
- â…” cup whipping cream
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups cake or pastry flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 90 g dark or bittersweet chocolate chopped
- 2 tsp cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 175 deg C (350 deg F). Grease and lightly flour a mini bundt pan (12 small bundts or 6 medium bundts), tapping out any excess flour.
- Place the chocolate pieces in a bowl, set it over a saucepan filled with some water, with the base of the bowl above the water level. Heat up the saucepan until water is just simmering, and gently melt the chocolate. When melted, remove from saucepan and allow it to cool. In another small bowl, combine whipping cream, lemon juice and vanilla extract. Stir to mix well and whip lightly until slightly thickened. Set aside.
- Sift together cake flour, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, lightly whisk the eggs. Set aside.
- In an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy on medium speed (speed 3-4 on my Kitchen Aid mixer), about 5 minutes. With the paddle still turning, beat in the beaten eggs a little at a time, until well incorporated. Beat in the whipping cream mixture.
- Reduce mixer speed. With paddle beating on low speed, add the sifted flour mixture and beat until just combined. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl, and finish folding by hand.
- Spoon out a third of the batter into a separate bowl. Stir in the melted chocolate and sift in the cocoa powder, and mix until well blended.
- If using piping bags, spoon the batter into the bags fitted with plain tips (or if without tips, snip off the ends). Alternatively, you can use a small scoop spoon. Pipe or spoon vanilla and chocolate batter alternately into each mini bundt mould, fill to 2/3 of each mould. Use a bamboo skewer to swirl the batter just a little to create the marbling effect. Bake for about 20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake emerges free of batter. Cool the cakes for 30 minutes in the pan, then turn out to cool completely.
Notes
- If you’re feeling really indulgent, you can top these little beauties with Anna’s chocolate ganache glaze (get the original recipe in full here).
