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 cook Chocolate Pound Cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chocolate Pound Cake
- You need 120 gm of unsalted Butter.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of Sugar.
- Prepare 2.5 tbsp of cocoa powder.
- It’s 100 ml of milk.
- It’s 20 gm of semi sweet chocolate.
- It’s 2 of Egg yolks.
- Prepare 2 of Egg Whites.
- Prepare 100 gm of All Purpose Flour.
- It’s 1 tbsp of corn Flour.
- Prepare 1/8 tsp of Salt.
- You need 11/4 tsp of baking powder.
- It’s 3-4 tbsp of Nuts for garnish (optional).
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 180, line the loaf pan.
- Sieve flour, baking powder and salt and keep it aside.
- Melt butter over low heat in a saucepan, add milk, sugar and Cocoa powder. Bring to boil, switch off.
- In a bowl, add semi sweet chocolate, add the above cocoa syrup to it reserving 1/2 cup cocoa syrup aside. Stir the chocolate and keep it aside. This is chocolate glaze.
- Whip egg whites until foamy and peaks form. Keep it aside.
- In a bowl, mix egg yolks and add to reserved cocoa syrup. Mix well. Incorporate dry ingredients slowly and blend well.
- Add whipped egg whites to batter and blend. Pour the batter to prepared loaf pan.
- Bake for 25-35 minutes until done. Allow to cool for 15 minutes, demould.Pour the chocolate glaze over the top of the cake. Garnish with nuts.cake should be completely cool before serving. Cut and serve.
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!
