Chocolate Pound Cake
Melt-in-your-mouth chocolate cake! It has the texture of velvet and the flavor or rich milk chocolate!
Servings: 12
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks or 226g) salted butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 3 cups (600g) granulated sugar
- 6 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups (281g) cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 cups (64 g) cocoa
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 ° F. Grease a 10-inch bundt pan.
- In a medium mixing bowl, cream together butter, cream cheese, and sugar.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg. Add vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, combine and sift flour, baking powder, and cocoa.
- Add about half of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat well. Add remaining flour mixture and beat well (about 2 minutes). You can also do this in your stand mixer with the paddle attachment.
- Pour into pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until done. Use a toothpick to test at 55 minutes. If the toothpick is removed *mostly* clean, the cake is done.