Chocolate Pumpkin Marble Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Prepare cake batter as directed on package. Add pumpkin and dry pudding mix; beat 2 min.
• Pour half the batter into medium bowl; stir in chocolate.
• Spoon batters alternately into 2 greased and floured 9x5-inch loaf pans; swirl gently with knife.
• Bake 45 to 50 min. or until toothpick inserted in centers comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans 10 min. Loosen cakes from sides of pans with knife; invert onto wire racks. Gently remove pans; cool cakes completely.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour a 9-by-13-inch baking pan.
• Prepare the cake batter according to the package directions. Spoon evenly into the prepared pan and set aside.
• Combine the ricotta, sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla, eggs and 4 ounces of the mascarpone in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat until smooth. Gently scoop the filling onto the cake batter and spread, so the top is completely covered. Bake until a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean and the vanilla cake layer has risen to the top, 50 to 60 minutes. Let cool completely in the pan on a cooling rack.
• Combine the instant pudding, milk and the remaining 12 ounces mascarpone in a stand mixer and beat until thick and smooth. Spread the frosting evenly over the entire cake. Use a peeler to shave chocolate curls to garnish the 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.

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.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F.
• Mix cookie crumbs, sugar and butter until blended; press onto bottom and 1-1/2 inches up side of 9-inch springform pan. Bake 10 min.
• Reduce oven temperature to 300°F. Beat cream cheese and milk in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each just until blended.
• Remove 1-1/2 cups batter; stir in melted chocolate. Add pumpkin and spice to remaining batter in bowl; mix well. Pour half the pumpkin batter over crust; top with spoonfuls of chocolate batter. Repeat layers. Swirl batters gently with knife.
• Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 5 min. or until center is almost set. Run knife around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim. Refrigerate cheesecake 4 hours.