Mahogany Pound Cake (Chocolate)
Recipe: #17784
March 07, 2015
Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Tube/Bundt, Snacks, Eggs, Southern, Birthday, Christmas, Mothers Day, Picnic, Potluck Oven Bake, Vegetarian, Chocolate, Sour Cream, Kosher Dairy, more
"I'm not sure where this recipe originated; I've made it for my family for over 20 years. To me, it tastes like chocolate ice cream. Make it a mocha pound cake by adding 2 tablespoons instant coffee granules! Make the cake extra special by adding frosting. If dutch-processed cocoa is used, the cake will be a rich dark color! Note: For a lighter, even more tender cake, separate the eggs; cream in the egg yolks with the butter and sugars; fold the stiffly beaten whites into the batter after the sour cream is added."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (98.9 g)
- Calories 345.2
- Total Fat - 14.5 g
- Saturated Fat - 8.5 g
- Cholesterol - 101 mg
- Sodium - 157.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 50.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.3 g
- Sugars - 34.3 g
- Protein - 5.7 g
- Calcium - 41.4 mg
- Iron - 0.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven at 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
Step 2
Sift together salt, flour and cocoa (and cream of tartar if using dutch-processed cocoa).
Step 3
Cream together butter, both sugars, and eggs. (See NOTE).
Step 4
Add optional instant coffee granules for a mocha pound cake!
Step 5
Add vanilla.
Step 6
Combine sour cream and baking soda.
Step 7
Combine creamed mixture with dry ingredients and alternate with sour cream mixture.
Step 8
NOTE: For a lighter, even more tender cake, separate the eggs; cream in the yolks with the butter and sugars; fold the stiffly beaten whites into the batter after the sour cream is added.
Step 9
Pour into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan, or a 12-cup bundt pan sprayed with baking spray containing flour.
Step 10
Bake 1 hour and 20 minutes. (I cover the cake with aluminum foil for the last 20 minutes of baking.)
NOTE: Dutch process cocoa and the need for cream of tartar explanation joyofbaking
Tips
- 10-inch tube pan or 12-cup bundt pan
- Baking spray containing flour
- Aluminum foil