Chocolate Butter Pound Cake |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 80 Minutes |
Ready In: 80 Minutes Servings: 16 |
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If you are a Pound Cake lover, and love Chocolate, then you have the best of both worlds in this cake. Enjoy! Ingredients:
chocolate butter pound cake |
cream well |
2 sticks butter |
1/2 cup shortening |
3 cups sugar |
2 tsp. vanilla |
2 tsp. brandy (optional) |
1/4 tsp. salt |
sift together |
3 cups flour |
1 tsp. baking powder |
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa |
add these dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with |
1 1/4 cups milk |
beat well. |
fold in:1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts |
glaze |
11/2 squares unsweetened baking chocolate |
2 tbsp. butter confectioners' sugar 1 tsp. vanilla |
Directions:
1. Pour batter into a well-greased 10-inch tube pan or two 9 x5x 3-inch
2. loaf pans. Bake in a preheated 325° oven for about 1 hour and 20
3. minutes. Be sure to test for doneness with a cake tester.
4. Glaze:
5. In a saucepan, melt baking chocolate with butter. Remove from burner; add enough confectioners' sugar and hot water to make glaze thin enough to drizzle on cake, adding 1 tsp. vanilla last.
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