Chocolate gets a bad rap, but it is really very good for you – it raises your endorphins! Chocolate makes a good happy pill when you’re feeling down. And with this chocolate pound cake recipe, it finishes with a decorative drizzle of melted chocolate!
How To Make Bittersweet Chocolate Pound Cake
Prep:
25 mins
Cook:
1 hr
Total:
1 hr 25 mins
Ingredients
Cake:
- 2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 ½ cup water
- 2 tbsp. Taster's Choice 100% Pure Instant Coffee
- 18 oz. Nestle Toll House Unsweetened Chocolate Baking Bars, or 3 bars, broken into pieces
- 2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup butter, or 2 sticks softened
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
Chocolate Glaze:
- 2 oz. Nestle Toll House Unsweetened Chocolate Baking Bars
- 3 tbsp. butter , or margarine
- 1 ½ cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 3 tbsp. water
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- powdered sugar, optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
-
Grease 10-inch bundt pan.
To make cake:
- Combine flour, baking soda and baking powder in small bowl.
- Bring water and Taster's Choice to a boil in small saucepan; remove from heat.
- Add 3 bars (6 oz.) baking chocolate; stir until smooth.
- Beat sugar, butter and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy.
- Add eggs; beat on high speed for 5 minutes.
- Beat in flour mixture alternately with chocolate mixture.
- Pour into prepared bundt pan.
- Bake for 50-60 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in cake comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on wire rack for 30 minutes.
- Invert onto wire rack to cool completely.
- Drizzle with Chocolate Glaze; sprinkle with powdered sugar.
To make chocolate glaze:
- Melt baking bar and butter in small, heavy-duty saucepan over low heat, stirring until smooth.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in powdered sugar alternately with water until of desired consistency.
- Stir in vanilla extract.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 55g
- :
- Calcium: 93mg
- Calories: 715kcal
- Carbohydrates: 87g
- Cholesterol: 47mg
- Fat: 44g
- Fiber: 8g
- Iron: 10mg
- Potassium: 527mg
- Protein: 10g
- Saturated Fat: 19g
- Sodium: 402mg
- Vitamin A: 876IU
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