Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake

This Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake with Peppermint Glaze is a new favorite of ours for the holidays!

It has all of the tenderness and buttery flavor of our classic pound cake recipe, but with the added hint of cocoa from delicious swirls of red velvet.

We LOVE this flavorful red velvet marble pound cake no matter what the occasion or season,  but at Christmastime, the addition of a peppermint glaze is perfection!

How to Make a Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake

You can find the full, printable recipe card for our Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake further down in this post. Here is a quick look at our process!

After mixing up the pound cake batter, we reserved a portion of it to create our red velvet marbling. This simply involves stirring in red coloring and cocoa until the color is uniform.

After preparing our bundt pan with vegetable shortening and flour, we alternated between layering our plain pound cake batter and the red velvet.

Repeat the layering of batter until finished, and tap the pan on the countertop several times to even things out.

Into the oven it goes!

All done! Allow the pound cake to cool in the bunt cake pan on a wire rack for about 10 minutes  before turning out.

Peppermint Glaze

After turning out the red velvet marble pound cake, we allowed it to cool. Then, we added the simple peppermint glaze for a final touch.  

We love the flavor combination of the peppermint with the red velvet marble pound cake. The glaze lends just the right of amount of flavor without being overpowering.

However, if you are not a fan of peppermint, simply omit the peppermint flavoring from the glaze recipe!

We hope that you enjoy this holiday recipe as much as we have! This is such a simple recipe, but the moist and velvety slices are sure to bring rave reviews (and they are pretty, too!).

More Christmas Cakes!

In addition to today's Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake, we have many more Christmas Cake Recipes for you to enjoy! A few of our most popular are our Red Velvet Cake, Eggnog Cake, Red Velvet Pound Cake and Gingerbread Cake!

Classic cakes like our Carrot Cake recipe, German Chocolate Cake, and Italian Cream Cake are always in demand for holidays as well (no matter what the season)!

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Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake with Peppermint Glaze

BY Melissa and Bebe

The most flavorful Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake with Peppermint Glaze! We love this cake year round, but adding the peppermint glaze makes it the perfect Christmas on winter cake!

Prep Time: 15 minutes mins

Course: Cakes and Cupcakes

Servings: 13

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Ingredients

For the Pound Cake

• ▢ 3 sticks unsalted butter, softened (339g)
• ▢ 3 cups white sugar (600g)
• ▢ 5 large eggs room temperature (can be warmed by placing in bowl of very warm water for 5 minutes)
• ▢ 3 cups all purpose flour (plain flour in the UK) (375g)
• ▢ ½ teaspoon baking powder (2g)
• ▢ 1 cup milk ( I use whole milk) (235g)
• ▢ 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (8g)
• ▢ 1 Tablespoon unsweetened cocoa (5g)
• ▢ 1 Tablespoon red liquid food coloring (11g)

For the Peppermint Glaze

• ▢ 2 ½ cups sifted powdered sugar (230g)
• ▢ ¼ cup milk (more if needed, add a teaspoon at a time) (60g)
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (4g)
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon peppermint extract (1g)
• ▢ Crushed Candy Canes for topping optional

Instructions

For the Cake

• Grease and flour a 10 inch (16 cup) bundt cake pan
• Lower the oven rack to the next to lowest position. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
• In a separate bowl whisk the flour and baking powder to combine, set aside.
• Beat the butter until smooth and creamy. Gradually add the sugar and beat on medium speed for 3 to 5 minutes until it is light and fluffy, may take longer if using a hand mixer.
• Add the vanilla. Add the eggs one at a time beating after each until the yolk is blended in.
• Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture (3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 additions of milk). Mix just until combined, scraping the sides and bottom of bowl.
• At this point, you will remove 2 ½ cups of the cake batter and put into another bowl. Add the cocoa and red food coloring and stir to combine.
• Using a small cookie scoop (1 ½”) or a Tablespoon, place scoops of the plain batter into the prepared pan, top this with the red batter, alternating each row until the batter is used. You could use a table knife to swirl slightly, or just leave in layers of color.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour to 1 hour and 5 minutes. If using an aluminum tube pan, the baking time will be longer. A toothpick or thin skewer inserted in the cake should come out clean or with just a few crumbs attached. Let cool in the pan 10 minutes. Turn out.

For the Peppermint Glaze

• Whisk together until smooth.
• Makes approximately 1 cup
• We find it easier to apply to the cake if put into a piping bag. No need to use a coupler, just snip the end of a disposable piping bag to create a small opening.
• Garnish the top of the cake with crushed candy canes.

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