Chocolate Swirl Muffin Cake Recipes

CHOCOLATE SWIRL MUFFIN CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F. Generously spray 12-cup bundt cake pan with cooking spray with flour.
• In 2-quart saucepan, heat Filling ingredients over medium-low heat 2 to 3 minutes, stirring constantly, until smooth. Remove and set aside 1/3 cup filling for glaze. Freeze remaining filling about 15 minutes or until thick like pudding.
• Meanwhile, in large bowl, stir together Cake ingredients. Spoon half the batter into pan. Remove filling from freezer. Carefully spoon filling in center of batter to within 1/2 inch of pan edges. Spoon remaining batter over filling.
• Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 20 minutes. Run metal spatula around outer and inside edges of pan to loosen cake; turn upside down onto serving platter. Cool completely, at least 2 hours.
• When ready to serve, in small microwavable bowl, heat reserved 1/3 cup filling uncovered on High 10 to 15 seconds or until smooth and pourable. Pour over cake to glaze. Store covered at room temperature.

CHOCOLATE SWIRL ZUCCHINI SHEET CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a sheet cake pan with cooking spray. Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
• In a mixing bowl, beat together 3 cups of sugar with canola oil with an electric mixer on low speed until the mixture is smooth; add 3 eggs one at a time, and beat again to combine. Beat in zucchini and vanilla until well combined. Beat the flour mixture into the sugar mixture by fourths, alternating with 1/4 cup of buttermilk after every portion of flour mixture. Mix the batter for 1 minute on medium-high speed, and pour the batter into the prepared baking pan.
• In a bowl, mix together the cream cheese and 1/4 cup of sugar until thoroughly combined, then mix in 1 egg until the cream cheese mixture is smooth. Spoon dollops of the cream cheese here and there over the cake batter, and swirl the cream cheese mixture through the batter with a table knife to make a marbled effect. Sprinkle the milk chocolate and semisweet chocolate chips over the cake.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the chocolate portion of the center of the cake comes out with moist crumbs, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool on a rack.

PHILADELPHIA CHOCOLATE-VANILLA SWIRL CHEESECAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Mix cookie crumbs and margarine; press onto bottom of foil-lined 13x9-inch pan. Bake 10 min.
• Beat cream cheese, sugar and vanilla in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add sour cream; mix well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing after each just until blended.
• Reserve 1 cup batter. Stir chocolate into remaining batter; pour over crust. Top with spoonfuls of reserved batter.
• Swirl batters with knife. Bake 40 min. or until centre is almost set. Cool. Refrigerate 4 hours.

CHOCOLATE SWIRL MUFFIN CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Generously grease 12-cup fluted tube cake pan.
• In 2-quart saucepan, cook all filling ingredients over medium-low heat 2 to 3 minutes, stirring constantly, until smooth.
• Remove 1/3 cup filling for glaze; set aside.
• Freeze remaining filling 15 minutes until thick like pudding.
• Meanwhile, in large bowl, stir together all cake ingredients.
• Spoon half the batter into pan.
• Remove filling from freezer.
• Carefully spoon filling in center of batter to within 1/2 inch of pan edges.
• Spoon remaining batter over filling.
• Bake 50 to 65 minutes or until top springs back when touched.
• Cool 15 minutes.
• Remove from pan to wire rack.
• Spoon reserved 1/3 cup filling on cake to glaze. (If too thick, microwave filling on High 10 to 15 seconds using microwavable small bowl.).
• Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• Note: Cook time does not include cooling time.

CHOCOLATE VANILLA SWIRL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 °F/195°C. Line muffin pan with muffin liners.
• Melt the chocolate chips in the microwave in 30 sec intervals, mixing in between until fully melted. Set aside to cool down.
• To make the muffins
• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
• In a separate bowl whisk together sugar and eggs. Add the cream cheese, yogurt, oil, and vanilla, keep whisking until the mixture is pale and fluffy.
• Fold the wet ingredients into the dry ones, mix well.
• Pour the melted chocolate on top of muffin dough. With a wooden spoon swirl melted chocolate into batter.
• Spoon batter into prepared muffin tins, filling about ⅔ of each cup.
• Place them in the oven and bake for 18-20 minutes or until the toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool for 5 minutes in the pan then remove muffins and cool on a wire rack.