Chocolate Pound Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 19
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 4 ounces chocolate, melted and cooled
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 1⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup milk
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Buttercream
- 3⁄4 cup butter, softened
- 4 cups icing sugar, sifted
- 4 teaspoons instant coffee, dissolved in (I use an instant espresso)
- 1⁄4 cup boiling water
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 cup boiling water
- 1⁄2 cup unsweetened cocoa
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
- chocolate shavings, for decoration
directions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Butter and flour an angel-food pan.
- Cream butter for 4 minutes, beat in mayonnaise, a little at a time, and sugar, a little at at time, and beat for 10 minutes.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition and beat for 4 minutes.
- With a wooden spoon, stir in chocolate and vanilla.
- Into a bowl, sift together flour, soda and salt.
- Whisk half the flour mixture and half the milk into the chocolate mixture and whisk in remaining flour and milk.
- Pour batter in prepared pan and bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean.
- Let cake cook in pan for 10 minutes, remove and let cool completely.
- Halve cake horizontally.
- To make buttercream: Cream butter until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes and beat in 1/3 cup of icing sugar, coffee mixture, salt, half the remaining icing sugar, the cocoa and vanilla.
- Beat in remaining icing sugar slowly and beat buttercream at high speed until it is light and fluffy.
- Spread a thick layer of buttercream on bottom layer of cake.
- Arrange top half on, and spread top and side with a thin layer of remaining buttercream.
- Transfer remaining buttercream to a pastry bag and pipe rosettes decoratively around top and base of cake.
- Garnish with chocolate shavings.
- Chill for 1 hour before serving.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.