Almond or Peanut Butter Chocolate Marble Cake with chocolate chips. Easy Marble cake/quick bread w/ layers of chocolate and nut butter batter. Vegan Recipe. Free of dairy, egg, corn, soy, yeast, palm oil. Makes 1 medium size loaf pan (8 by 4, or 8.5 by 4.5 inches)

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 15 minutes
  • Cook time: 50 minutes
  • Total time: 65 minutes
  • Yield: 8
  • Category: Breakfast, Dessert
  • Cuisine: American, Vegan

Ingredients

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)

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F / 180ºc.
  2. In one bowl, whisk in all the dry ingredients.
  3. In another bowl, mix the non dairy milk, sugar, vanilla, oil and flax and mix until sugar is fully dissolved.
  4. Add dry to wet and mix until just about combined.
  5. Transfer half of the batter into the other bowl.
  6. Sprinkle cocoa powder to one bowl and mix until just combined. Add 2 tbsp chocolate chips (optional) and fold in
  7. Soften the nut butter on stove top or microwave, then add to the other bowl. Mix to combine.
  8. 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.
  9. Sprinkle chocolate chips or walnuts on top if you like.
  10. Bake at 350 degrees F / 180ºc for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick form the center comes out clean.
  11. Cool, slice, share.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.