Chocolate marbled pound cake

Dry Ingredients:

All purpose flour                     - 1 and 1/2 cups

Sugar                                      - 1 and 1/4 cups

Unsweetened cocoa powder   - 1 tbsp

Orange zest                             - from 1 orange

Baking soda                            - 1/2 tsp

Baking powder                        - 1/2 tsp

Salt                                          - 1/4 tsp

Wet Ingredients

Greek yogurt(thick curds)       - 8 ounces

Butter                                      - 8 tbsps

Eggs                                        - 3

Chocolate syrup                      - 1 tbsp

Directions:

Sift the flour. Add the rest of the dry ingredients except the cocoa powder in a large vessel. Divide this into three parts.

Dry Ingredients
 
 In another bowl, break the eggs and whisk them. Then add the yogurt and whisk it to get a fluffy texture.Melt the butter and add it to this mixture, blend well.

 

wet ingredients

wet ingredients for marbling

 

Line the baking pan with an aluminium foil. Spray oil on the foil and the rest of the pan.
This helps to take out the cake easily.Layer half of the non-chocolate mix.

first layer

Add the chocolate mixture in drops over the first layer, try to avoid the sides of the dish so that the marbling remains in the center of the cake without spreading too much on the outer side of the cake.

chocolate layer

Then top with the rest of the non-chocolate mix over this and swirl with a brush.Bake in the oven for 375 F 15 minutes and reduce temperature to 350 F until done. 

Baked cake