Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, glazed pound chocolate cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Place a loaf of pound cake on a rack and drizzle with the glaze. Recipe courtesy Food Network Magazine's cookbook: Great Easy Meals. This Chocolate Pound Cake is rich and buttery with a mild chocolate flavor. It has a fine crumb and a dense texture.
Glazed Pound Chocolate Cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Glazed Pound Chocolate Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have glazed pound chocolate cake using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Glazed Pound Chocolate Cake:
- Take 1/3 cup Self-Raising Flour
- Make ready 1/2 cup Almond Meal
- Take *Note: Flour & Almond Meal weigh 125g in total
- Get 1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder *optional, depending on Dark Chocolate’s cocoa content
- Take 125 g Butter *cut into small pieces, softened at room temperature
- Get 125 g (2 x 1/4 cup) Caster Sugar
- Get 125 g Dark Chocolate *melted
- Make ready 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- Prepare 3 Egg Yolks
- Make ready 3 Egg Whites *Note: Eggs should be at room temperature
- Get Icing
- Take 1/2 cup Icing Sugar
- Get 2 teaspoons Milk
I have received a lot of requests for recipes in the past, but Grandmama's Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Glaze is the one cake that I am asked to make most often. This simple chocolate glaze does harden up slightly so it is perfect for making chocolate glazed donuts or for dipping eclairs. You can also drizzle it over pound cake or bundt cake! Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudgy Glaze.
Instructions to make Glazed Pound Chocolate Cake:
- Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease a loaf tin and line the base and sides with baking paper.
- Combine Self-Raising Flour, Almond Meal and Cocoa Powder in a bowl and set aside.
- Beat the softened Butter in a mixing bowl with a whisk until smooth. Add 1/4 cup Sugar and beat until creamy. Add Egg Yolks and mix well. Add melted Chocolate and mix well.
- Beat Egg Whites until soft peaks form. Gradually add 1/4 cup Caster Sugar and beat until combined well and glossy.
- Add the flour mixture to the chocolate mixture and mix well. Then gently fold in the Egg Whites mixture. DO NOT over-mix it.
- Pour the mixture into the loaf tin and bake for 40 minutes or until cooked through. Stand the cake in the tin for 5 minutes as it is quite soft, then turn onto a wire rack to cool.
- To make the icing, combine Icing Sugar and Milk in a bowl and mix well until smooth. If you need to make it softer, add extra Milk, but only a small mount at a time. Spread the icing over the cooled Chocolate Cake.
You can also drizzle it over pound cake or bundt cake! Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudgy Glaze. Dinner guests will be wowed when this chocolate pound cake appears at the end of the meal. (You don't have to tell them how easy it was to make!) This is pound cake the way pound cake was meant to be. And our great-grandmas knew what they were doing. I'm sure there's some way to add even more butter to this recipe.
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