If your family finds the chocolate flavor the tastiest, then you should know how to bake pound cake – with chocolate flavor.

Not only is learning how to bake pound cake easy – but the processes involved are also easy to learn and follow.

Here is a recipe that can teach you how to bake pound cake – with chocolate as the ruling flavor:

The ingredients needed are:

1-cup butter, room temperature,

2 cups sugar,

4 eggs at room temperature – beaten well

1 (8-ounce) bittersweet chocolate bar or chocolate chips,

1 chocolate syrup, (16 oz can or bottle)

1/2 teaspoon baking soda,

½ cup buttermilk,

½ cup sour cream

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 cups flour – triple sifted

Here is how to bake pound cake:

Recipe #1:

First of all, the oven should be preheated to 350 degrees. Keep a greased and floured pan which should ideally be a 12-cup Bundt pan ready. Remember to keep 2 inches parting at the top for the cake to rise.

Take a large bowl and with an electric hand held beater cream butter and sugar until soft and creamy. Add the eggs beat until the mixture is even and all the ingredients have merged properly.

Next take a heavy saucepan and over low heat, melt chocolate bar or chocolate chips, stirring all the while until smooth. Remove from heat. Add chocolate syrup and butter-sugar mixture – again stirring continuously until well mixed.

Add to the chocolate mixture the butter milk then add 1 ½ cups of flour blending well until mixed thoroughly then add cream and remaining 1 ½ cups of flour; beating once again until the mixture is smooth and well-integrated.

Next you pour into prepared bundt pan. Bake approximately 1 hour 20 minutes or until it passes the toothpick test.

Remove from oven and allow it to be cooled for 15 minutes. Then finally remove from pan and invert onto a cake plate.

If you wish to top this cake with frosting please go to www.frostingandicingrecipes.com

Recipe #2:

While you are learning how to bake pound cake, you would want to know how to bake a rich cake which has a moist and creamy texture.

This recipe does not need any frosting, as it can be simply dusted with powdered sugar.

The ingredients needed are:

1-1/2 cups butter, softened,

3 cups sugar,

5 eggs – Organic and well beaten

2 tsp. vanilla,

1-1/4 cups buttermilk,

2-1/3 cups flour – sifted 3 times

2/3 cup cocoa sifted with flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder – sifted with flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda – sifted with flour

1/4 tsp. Salt – sifted with flour

1/3 cup peanut butter

1-1/3 cups chocolate chips.

Here is how to bake pound cake of this type: first of all, pre-heat oven to 325 degrees F. Then Spray a 10-inch Bundt pan with nonstick baking spray and set aside.

In a large bowl beat butter, peanut butter and sugar until light and foamy. Add the eggs a little at a time, while beating the mixture. Add the vanilla.

Add the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt mixture a little at a time alternating with butter milk beginning and ending with dry ingredients.

Finally, pour the batter into the pre-prepared pan.

Bake at 325 degrees F for 65-75 minutes, until the pound cake passes the toothpick test. Allow the mixture to cool for about 5 minutes. Then turn onto serving plate and cool completely.

Hopefully, you have now learnt how to bake pound cake – the chocolaty way!

Note: If you do wish to make the above recipe awesome, drizzle some melted chocolate on top OR visit www.frostingandicingrecipes.com for delicious toppings.

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