Chocolate Pound Cake

"Piping in the rosettes does make for a bit more work than just icing the cake, but the presentation is so much nicer - you decide."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 30mins
Ingredients:
19
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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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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Reviews

  1. This is a dense moist chocolate cake, I even made the buttercream frosting on this recipe, both complimented each other perfectly, although this cake would be just as good without any frosting, thanks Ev...Kitten :)
     
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