Dusted Chocolate Pound Cake Recipes

CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 10-inch tube pan with butter.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa together. Set aside.
• With an electric mixer, cream the 1 cup butter, the shortening and the sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs one a time, beating well after each addition. With the motor running, add the flour mixture and the milk alternately, beginning and ending with the flour. Add the vanilla.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour. Check for doneness by inserting a toothpick into the cake; it should come out clean. Cool the cake in the pan for 30 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
• Slice the cake and serve topped with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

BASIC CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour, baking powder and cocoa. Combine milk and vanilla. Add dry ingredients to creamed mixture alternately with milk mixture. Mix well. , Pour into greased 10-in. tube pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 70-80 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. If desired, sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.

CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Use a 8 x 4 x 2 1/2" loaf pan, (4 cups) or any 6 cup loaf pan or fluted tube pan, greased and floured.
• In a medium mixing bowl whisk together the cocoa and water until smooth.
• Allow to cool to room temperature and lightly whisk in the vanilla and eggs.
• In a large mixing bowl combine the remaining dry ingredients and mix on low speed for 30 seconds to blend.
• Add 1/2 the chocolate mixture and the butter.
• Mix on low speed until the dry ingredients are moistened.
• Increase to medium speed and beat for 1 minute to develop the cake's structure. Scrape down the sides.
• Gradually add the remaining chocolate mixture in 2 batches, beating 20 seconds after each addition to incorporate the ingredients and strengthen the structure. Scrape down the sides.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the surface with a spatula.
• The batter will be almost 1/2 inch from the top of a 4-cup pan.
• (if your pan is slightly smaller, use any excess batter for cupcakes.) Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, (40 to 50 minutes in a fluted tube pan) or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Place loosely with buttered foil over the cake after 20 minutes to prevent over browning.
• The cake should start to shrink away from the sides of the pan only after removal from the oven.
• Let the cake cool in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes.
• Loosen the sides with a metal spatula and invert onto a greased wire rack.
• If baked in a loaf pan, to keep the bottom from splitting, reinvert so that the top is up and cool completely before wrapping airtight.
• TOPPING: This is for extra moistness and gives a subtle coffee accent.
• In a small pan, stir together 1/4 cup water and 2 Tbsp sugar.
• Bring to a full rolling boil.
• Cover and remove from heat. When cool, add 1 tbsp Kahlua.
• When cake is baked, brush half the syrup onto the top.
• Cool the cake 10 minutes and invert it onto a lightly greased rack.
• Brush the bottom and sides with remaining syrup.
• Reinvert onto rack, top side up, to finish cooling.

DUSTED CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325*; grease and flour bundt or tube pan.
• Sift flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder together.
• Beat shortening and butter together.
• Slowly add sugar and beat until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add flour mix and milk alternately to creamed mixture, beginning and ending with flour.
• Add vanilla, mix well.
• Pour into pan, place on center rack and bake 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
• Check with wooden pick after 1-1/2 hours to see if it needs more time.

CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream together the butter and shortening.
• Add sugar and mix well.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
• Add vanilla.
• Sift all dry ingredients together.
• Add dry ingredients and milk alternately until creamy.
• Bake in 10 inch tube pan or bundt pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees F for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• If you do not want a chocolate pound cake, just leave off the cocoa.

MOIST CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl for five minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Dissolve coffee granules in hot water, combine with buttermilk, set aside.
• Combine flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder; add alternately with buttermilk to creamed mixture, beating just until blended. Pour batter into a greased and floured Bundt or tube pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until the cake tests done. Remove from oven and cool 20 minutes, then remove from pan.
• Cool completely before frosting, or sprinkling with confectioners' sugar.
• NOTE: to make a buttermilk substitute, add 1 tablespoon vinegar to a measuring cup, add milk until it reached the 1 cup mark. Let stand for 5 minutes, and use as buttermilk!

CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE WITH FUDGE ICING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Grease and flour a 12-cup tube pan; set aside.
• In large bowl, beat butter, shortening, and sugar at medium speed with an electric mixer until very creamy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• In another bowl, sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.
• Add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 hour 10 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in the center of cake comes out clean.
• Note: You may have to bake your cake longer than the stated time, depending on your oven.
• Let cool in pan for 15 minutes.
• Invert onto a cooling rack and let cool completely.
• Place cake on a cake plate, ready to frost, before making fudge icing.
• Frost with fudge icing as soon as it reaches the proper spreading consistency.
• For the icing, in saucepan, combine sugar, milk, butter, cocoa and salt.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat.
• Let boil for 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat and add vanilla.
• Beat at high speed with an electric mixer for 6-8 minutes, or until frosting becomes creamy and reaches a spreadable consistency.
• If making icing on a rainy day, it may take longer to reach a spreadable consistency.
• If you overbeat icing, or it begins to harden, add a little hot water, 1 teaspoon at a time, until icing is spreadable again.

LIGHT CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degree.
• 2. In a bowl put sugar and butter and batter until fluffy.
• 3. In another bowl mix all dry ingredients: flower, baking powder, baking soda, chocolate powder, and salt.
• 4. Add to the batter little by little alternating egg, sour cream, vanilla extract and flower mix from step 2.
• 5. Spray your pound cake baking dish with pam and add the batter.
• 6. Bake for approximately 60 min until inserted pick comes out dry.

DARK CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter a 10-inch Bundt pan or two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
• In a bowl, gradually whisk milk into cocoa powder to make a smooth paste; whisk in yogurt and set aside. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, using an elecric mixer, beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy; beat in eggs and vanilla. Using a wooden spoon, stir in flour mixture, alternately with milk mixture, making 3 additions of flour and 2 additions of milk. Fold in chocolate chips.
• Spread into prepared pan, smoothing top. Bake for 60-70 minutes or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean with a few moist crumbs clinging to it. Let cool in pan on a rack for 15 mintues. Invert onto rack, remove pan and let cool completely. Serve dusted with icing sugar.