Best Fudge Marble Pound Cake, soft, buttery vanilla and chocolate are marbled together so that you get the best bite of chocolate and vanilla combined.
Chop chocolate and placed in a microwavable safe bowl. Melt chocolate at 30 second intervals in the microwave. Stir after each 30 seconds. When melted through stir until smooth. Allow to cool.
Grease a tube or bundt pan with solid vegetable shortening and sprinkle with sugar (You can use flour, I prefer granulated sugar.)
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
In the bowl of your stand mixer, mix butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.
Add eggs one at a time, stirring until yolk disappears into batter before adding the next egg.
Turn the mixer to low and alternately add the flour and milk beginning andn ending with flour. Add vanilla and mix until just combined. Don't over mix at this point.
Take 1 and 1/2 cups of batter out. Add the melted and cooled chocolate to this and fold in with a spatula.
Pour 1/3 of the vanilla batter into the prepared pan and smooth evenly.Pour 1/2 of the chocolate batter into pan over the vanilla.Pour another 1/3 of the vanilla batter over the chocolate.Pour remaining 1/2 of the chocolate batter into pan.Pour remaining 1/3 of the vanilla batter into pan and gently smooth the top.
Bake in 325 degree oven for 60 to 70 minutes.
Cake is done with no crumbs or dry crumbs remain on wooden pick when inserted into thickest part of the cake.
Remove cake from the oven and allow to cool for 20 minutes on a wire rack before inverting onto serving tray. Cool completely.