Chocolate Pound Cake. This Chocolate Pound Cake gets its chocolate flavor from unsweetened cocoa powder. When adding the cocoa powder to the cake batter, we first dissolve it in boiling water to bring out its full flavor. Wonderful chocolate pound cake, my family really enjoyed it in a bundt cake form with chocolate frosting This was a very good pound cake.
A friend of mine gave me this recipe years ago. Somehow it just gets better each time you bake it! —Doris Fletcher, Hendersonville, North. This chocolate pound cake recipe comes from one of my favorite go-to cookbooks, the Church of the Holy Spirit Cookbook. You can have Chocolate Pound Cake using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Chocolate Pound Cake
- You need 1/2 cup of shortening (crisco).
- Prepare 1 cup of butter.
- You need 3 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 5 large of eggs.
- It’s 3 cup of cake flour (plain will work).
- It’s 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
- It’s 1/2 cup of cocoa.
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup of milk.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
My mom gave it to me as a gift many years ago and I have treasured it! Slice the cake and serve topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Adapted from "Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen" by Trisha. This Chocolate Pound Cake is dense, buttery and loaded with rich chocolate flavor.
Chocolate Pound Cake step by step
- preheat oven to 325°F.
- grease and flour a tube pan.
- cream shortening and butter together.
- gradually add sugar; continue creaming until light and fluffy.
- add eggs 1 at a time beating well after each addition.
- combine (sift together) flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa.
- add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour.
- stir in vanilla.
- pour into greased & floured tube pan.
- bake at 325°F for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- cool on wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes.
- invert onto wire rack to remove.
While I love a regular pound cake, I might not ever go back now that I've had this amazing chocolate version. Chocolate pound cake comes together so easily that it's an everyday cake, but the taste and texture — that close-knit, tight crumb unique to a pound cake — plus the deep chocolate flavor make it feel. This is a Classic Traditional Chocolate Pound Cake that's extremely simple to make, requiring only a handful of ingredients. It's rich and extremely decadent, a real treat that your whole family will love! Chocolate Pound Cake makes a delicious pound cake you'll love to serve for special occasions and celebrations!
