Remember when I used to work out?
Gosh golly. In our first few weeks here in the Philippines, I worked out every morning. And by worked out, I mean I ran for five seconds. It wasn’t much, but it gave me license for an extra cookie.
Now I don’t work out anymore, and I have a million reasons why.
First of all, I have this weird chest pain called costochondritis. I can’t believe I just told you that, and yes I might be 95 years old. Just please pretend I’m normal for one second. This random chest pain makes me want to lay in bed and eat chocolate and Advil all day. There is no working out when this thing is kicking my butt.
But the nice thing about costochondritis is that it goes away. So, like, it’s gone now. Annnnd I’m still not working out because I realized that it’s kind of nice to watch TV instead.
I am so bad, but I’m about to get worse.
Because not working out also gives me extra time for yummy TV snacks. Say, for example, a chocolate and sweet cream cake named “marble loaf”.
Oooooh it’s so good. We ate about half the batter before this thing even hit the oven. Maybe it tasted so good because there was half of a can of sweetened condensed milk in it, or maybe it tasted extra good because I don’t work out anymore. Funny how that works.
Oh my gosh. I promise to you, and to myself, that I will work out again in some way, shape, or form, someday. Now promise you’ll make this and smoosh your face in it.
Print
Chocolate Sweet Cream Marble Loaf
- Total Time: 50 minutes
- Yield: 8–10 1x
Description
This chocolate and sweet cream marble loaf is a perfect quick and easy snack, breakfast or dessert. And it’s so pretty, too!
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup flour
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/3 cup milk (I used part milk, part heavy cream, because that’s what I do)
- 1 beaten egg
- 1/3 cup melted butter (or oil can work too)
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325. Grease a loaf pan with nonstick spray or parchment paper.
- Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar together in a medium bowl.
- Add the vanilla, sweetened condensed milk, milk, egg, and melted butter. Stir until just combined.
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan, reserving about ½ cup of the batter.
- Mix the cocoa powder with the remaining ½ cup batter and stir until combined. Pour the chocolate batter over the regular batter and marble with the tip of a knife, making “s” motions throughout the batter until the two batters are swirled together in a nice pattern.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean. Top each slice with butter or jam, or serve with coffee.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 40 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: marble loaf, chocolate marble loaf, marble bread
I’m spending tonight at the mall with six preteen girls. Buckle up.
hi! i just found your website and am really excited to try a bunch of recipes! i was wondering if i could substitute the flour in this for something gluten and nut free? my toddler is allergic to wheat and nuts.
So crazy…I have the SAME chest pain! I never knew what it was until now when I was finally able to give it a name and google it and find out more about it…the internet is so much more powerful and smarter than doctors these days…
Making this loaf tonight!! Thanks for being awesome! 🙂
Thanks Dahlia! 🙂 It’s weird the ways that we can be connected, right?
Tried this recipe..followed to a tee and missed the moist part. Good out of the oven but then turned hard…do you happen to have a r ecipe that is moist and won’t turn hard once cooled??thank you
WAAAAAAAAAAY Too much Sweet Cream. I realised it after mixing the ingredients but it was too late. Nothing I did could save it. This comes out more like a biscuit than a cake. I felt like I was eating a KFC biscuit.
Nevermind. Forgot it was supposed to be a loaf not a cake
Hi, can you tell my what size was the can of condensed milk that you used? Just so I get an accurate measurement of what half a can is. Thanks!
14 ounces!
I loved this recipe…Instead of being left with half a can of the sweetend condensed milk I decided to double the whole recipe. It made a beautiful high loaf in my pan and it was
fantastic!
Just noticed vanilla is listed twice in the ingredients list. I do not see in the directions any reference to adding it twice, can you verify that this is correct? Thanks, can’t wait to make this!
Oh, weird. No, it should only be on there once. 🙂 I’ll update it. Thanks!
I know how you feel about the Costochondritis, Lindsay. I have it, too, and sometimes you feel like you’re having a heart attack. It’s no fun at all.
Can’t wait to try your Chocolate Sweet Cream Marble Loaf! It looks so yummy!! Thanks for posting it, and I hope you have more days when you feel better, than you have in pain.
Thanks Debbie! Same to you!!
This recipe is so perfect for me right now – I had a long and far from perfect day, and really crave a piece of nice, home baked cake. On my way to the kitchen already 🙂
I was just sent your blog through a twitter friend! This post alone just made me forcefully add you to my google reader! lol. Not working out + watching TV = tv snacking for sure!!
Ha! Thanks Christina!
That is a gorgeous cake….what an awesome recipe!
I’m such an excuse maker when working out comes up…
I mean, us girls get busy, right? Ha. This loaf looks divine!!
Bahaha – yes, us girls get busy. Thank you.
Working out is overrated! Ha! Especially if you have this bread hanging around your kitchen! Looks delicious! 🙂
What a lovely loaf cake! I workout 5 days a week, but I’m starting to think it’s overrated! 😉
That looks really good. Mmmmm
I don’t have any conditions but I’ve been going to physical therapy for a year because every part of my body hurts all the time except my arms and chest. So there can be a few of us in the old lady boat! Woohoo. It also prevents me from exercising.
And yeah. A half can of sweetened condensed milk usually makes anything better so I know this must be great. 🙂
Boo for old lady pain in young bodies. Just wait till we actually get old… 🙂
I’m 16 and also have Costochondritis so we’re both in the old lady boat I guess. I got it from my back pack being too heavy in like 7th grade it’s super annoying and painful. Feel better!
Oh my gosh! Sad! 🙁 Those dumb backpacks.
i would definitely lay in bed all day and eat your mango snack cake, your peanut butter oatmeal cookies, advil, water, this marble cake, and your baked croissant cinnamon french toast. we’d be fat and lethargic and have 849758394 cavities. But it would be WORTH IT. 😉
Lindsay, I actually went and cooked it! I should have been careful and read the warning between the lines – this cake is the shortest road to food heaven and self-restrain hell! I cooked it and then I ate most of it, despite my diet of now nearly 10 weeks!
This cake is mild, delicate and a touch salty from the condense milk in it. You also can’t really taste the milk, you rather go: “m-m-m…. yum… what is it? I know this taste” – but it’s gone now, you have to take another bite!
Thank you Lindsay for this great recipe:-) I took the liberty to re-post it on my blog, I hope you don’t mind!
Hahaha! That’s great. Thanks for sharing it! 🙂
Oh, my. This looks heavenly!
Oh my goodness, this looks good. I’m sure the sweetened condensed milk makes this extra moist.
Glad you are feeling better, Lindsay. I’m going to give the marble loaf a whirl!!! Looks good 🙂
Thanks Mom! XO
yum – this looks soooooo good. I’ve quit working out temporarily too. . . . back in the saddle again once school starts – hopefully!!
I have that too and it feels like someone is stepping on my chest when it gets bad! OR rather, ripping my chest bone in half. I feel ya! This looks delicious!