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Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 1 Minutes |
Ready In: 16 Minutes Servings: 16 |
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This is a delicious, moist, thoroughly chocolate pound cake! Ingredients:
3 cups flour |
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa |
1/2 teaspoon baking powder |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
1 1/2 cups softened butter or 1 1/2 cups margarine |
3 cups sugar |
5 eggs |
1 1/4 cups milk |
4 ounces grated chocolate |
1 tablespoon vanilla extract |
confectioners' sugar |
Directions:
1. Mix flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt in one bowl.
2. In another bowl, beat butter until fluffy, gradually adding in the sugar.
3. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
4. Alternate between adding in the flour mixture and the milk, beginning with the flour.
5. Blend in the grated chocolate and vanilla extract.
6. Pour into greased and floured tube pan. Bake in preheated 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until cake tests done. Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes, inverting the pan onto a rack (or a glass coke bottle). Before serving, dust with confectioner's sugar. Can garnish with berries and mint sprigs.
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