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Soft, Moist, Buttery Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake. Use almond butter or Cashew Butter for variation! Easy Dessert. Vegan Soyfree Recipe. Jump to Recipe Â
Some Days I just want my chocolate fix which isn’t all chocolate. And this Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake hits the spot. The cake is more a quick bread with just the right amount of sweet (mild) from coconut sugar. I added some chocolate chips for an additional chocolate+sweet boost. The soft, moist, buttery slices make a great snack, breakfast or dessert with some whipped coconut cream or ice cream!Â
The cake is easy and uses just 2 bowls. Mix the wet in one, dry in one. Combine to make batter. Divide the batter into 2, add cocoa to one and nut butter like peanut, almond, hazelnut to the other. Marble and bake! For a Gluten-free option see This Gluten-free Nut Butter Chocolate Marble Loaf.Â
Some chit chat about blogging. The other day, someone asked me about what do I do the whole day. Well, let me see. Recipe development, photography, editing, some more editing, some more cooking for dinner, editing photos, research, marketing the book, writing to brands and magazines, keeping the blog updated, social media, some more social media, comments, blog back-end stuff, some more tech stuff, keeping a tab on all the ad network so they don’t let non vegan ads slip by, more book stuff, articles, and there is lots more, you get the picture. Just the other day we added caching (sitelock) to the blog and now the html attributes like title on the blog are not getting detected. Oh well, the weekend has been scheduled for debugging. And a reminder to self to schedule some eye exercising time in the day. What’s your plan for the weekend?
Cooking and eating all the food, and watching everyone of you cook, eat and love the food too is of course the most awesome part.Â
More Friday inspiration from the blog
- Vegan Almond Butter Blondies with Chocolate Chips
- Vegan Chocolate Pumpkin Cake and Cake Mix In a Jar
- Vegan Gingerbread Cake
- Vegan Chocolate Layer Cake for One. No Bake!
If you make something from the blog, do tag me with #veganricha. Quick note, Amazon has been slashing prices on books since the past few days and print books are anywhere from 10 to 13 bucks! Keep an eye out on your favorite books that make great gifts 🙂
Slices!!
Almond or Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake
Ingredients Â
Dry
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour, or use whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 cup unbleached white flour , or all purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
Wet
- 1 cup non dairy milk
- 2/3 cup coconut sugar or other vegan sugar, use a few tbsp more for sweeter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1 tbsp flax seed meal
- 2.5 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp smooth peanut butter , or almond butter or other creamy nut or seed butter
- vegan mini chocolate chips , or chopped walnuts
InstructionsÂ
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / 180ºc.
- In one bowl, whisk in all the dry ingredients.
- In another bowl, mix the non dairy milk, sugar, vanilla, oil and flax and mix until sugar is fully dissolved.
- Add dry to wet and mix until just about combined.
- Transfer half of the batter into the other bowl.
- Sprinkle cocoa powder to one bowl and mix until just combined. Add 2 tbsp chocolate chips (optional) and fold in
- Soften the nut butter on stove top or microwave, then add to the other bowl. Mix to combine.
- Grease or line a medium loaf pan (8.5 by 4.5 inch) with parchment. Add half the chocolate batter and spread with a spatula to cover the base. Then add the peanut butter layer and lightly spread with the spatula. Then chocolate then peanut butter.
- Sprinkle chocolate chips or walnuts on top if you like.
- Bake at 350 degrees F / 180ºc for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick form the center comes out clean.
- Cool, slice, share.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Hi – I was searching for a vegan choc PB cake to make for my husbands bday. Could this be made in a round pan and frosted? I was thinking an 8″ round and maybe double the ingredients to make two 8″ round layers?
Yes double the recipe. Bake one pb cake and one chocolate cake. Layer and frost with a pb chocolate frosting of choice.
Thanks! Can’t wait to make it tomorrow – looks delish!!
I was searching for peanut butter bread and found this and it looks so good! I’m not a vegan though, can I substitute egg for the flax, or do I need to adjust the overall liquid if I do that?
Hi Rachel, The site and i am vegan. So i cannot recommend using an egg. Eggs come for tortured hens, the egg industry grinds up live male chicks because they are useless. Billions of male chicks are ground up per year. Cage-free and humane labels have been proven to be useless as they do not mean anything different.
Yikes, I never heard of that!
Hi, Richa. This looks WONDERFUL! Quick question. I’m trying to limit oils. Is there anything I could sub for the oil in the recipe? I would think banana or applesauce would have too strong a taste. What about pumpkin? I welcome your feedback. I really want to make this. Thanks.
applesauce should work fine. or use non dairy yogurt.
We made it and it is delicious!
Hi! Curious what oil you recommend for this recipe? Thank you so much!
I usually use organic safflower or organic canola oil.
Hi Richa! This cake looks amazing! I want to try it but I have a question: is the peanut butter unsweetened? I thought about using that peanut butter that contains only peanuts and is fresh ground, but I know the texture is not exactly smooth. What do you think?
The peanut butter i used was smooth and lightly sweetened. sweetened or unsweetened will not make a difference. if the pb is not smooth, you can warm it slightly so that it is easier to mix into the batter.
Thank you! =)
Hi Richa! We made the cake, but just the peanut part. We did not have baking soda, so we added more baking powder, and we used chia instead of flaxseeds. The cake was delicious indeed, but the texture was not as expected. =(
We’ll try the most accurate recipe someday! Thank you for the support!
how much baking powder did you add? You would need 1 tsp baking powder more with the same flour measure. You can make the the cake as a peanut butter cake. Just add about a 1/3 cup peanut butter into the entire batter and bake. How was the texture of your cake like?
Yes, we added 1 tsp baking powder more and more peanut butter. It was partially deflated. We are beginners in the art of baking! Thank you again, we tagged you on instagram! =)
what flour did you use?
We used white whole wheat + all purpose flour
it seems like there was more moisture in the batter, that needed more baking time or needed more flour. how was the consistency of the batter and the baked cake. Was the cake wettish in the center?
I want to thank you for sharing your recipes. I used your snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies, brownies and thumbprints recipes and my carnivore daughter who is quite honest said she liked all of them. I am thinking about making this recipe to share with more carnivores tomorrow night. I almost lost faith in ever being a decent baker since going vegan four years ago. But your recipes allowed me to be true to my conscience as well as to be a mom who has delicious baked good to share with her family.
Thank you so much Sandy. that is so awesome that you have had success with baking the recipes and your daughter likes them! Hope this cake comes out fabulous!
Absolutely delicious! Thank you, Richa.
Awesome!