Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Pound Cakemaple Espresso Glaze Recipes

ESPRESSO CHIP POUNDCAKE

Steps:

• Cream the butter, sugar and brown sugar together. Start on a slow speed until blended, then turn it up to the highest speed until it is light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla to the mixture and mix on medium speed until the eggs are fully broken up and combined. Do not over mix this part. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together, add to the mixture and mix until combined. Add the sour cream and buttermilk and mix until combined. Add the espresso, and mix until it is combined. If you are using hot espresso shots, then pour them slowly into the mixture so that it does not begin to cook the eggs. Add the chocolate chips and mix them until combined.
• Preheat the oven to 275 degrees F. Grease and flour a bundt cake pan.
• Scoop the cake mixture into the prepared pan. Place the cake on a cookie sheet and bake for 1 hour and 45 minutes to 2 hours, or until an inserted knife comes clean from the cake. Placing the cake on a cookie sheet is just a suggestion to keep your oven clean, in case the cake mixture spills over the sides of the pan.
• Let the cake cool, then remove it from the pan upside down. Garnish it with powdered sugar.

BROWN SUGAR AND CHOCOLATE CHIP POUND CAKE WITH MAPLE-ESPRESSO GLAZE

Steps:

• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter 12-cup Bundt pan. Spray pan generously with nonstick spray. Dust pan lightly with flour. Mix chocolate chips and 2 tablespoons flour in medium bowl. Sift remaining flour with baking soda, baking powder, and salt into another medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in vanilla extract and maple extract. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with buttermilk in 2 additions, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Fold in chocolate chip mixture. Transfer batter to prepared pan, spreading evenly.
• Bake cake until tester inserted near center comes out clean and cake begins to pull away from sides of pan, about 1 hour. Cool cake in pan on rack 30 minutes. Invert cake onto rack and cool completely.
• GOOD TO KNOW:
• Mixing the chocolate chips with a little flour before adding them to the batter helps the chips stay evenly suspended in the batter and evenly distributed throughout the baked cake (otherwise, they may sink to the bottom).
• For glaze:
• Combine powdered sugar, maple syrup, 2 tablespoons cream, and espresso powder in medium bowl. Whisk until smooth, adding more cream by 1/2 teaspoonfuls if glaze is too thick to drizzle. Spoon glaze decoratively over top of cake; let stand at room temperature until glaze is firm, about 1 hour. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover with cake dome and let stand at room temperature.

GLAZED CHOCOLATE ESPRESSO CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 9-inch springform pan with nonstick spray. Line the base and sides with parchment paper.
• For the cake: Cream the butter and brown sugar together in the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing until fully incorporated before adding the next and scraping the sides of the bowl after each addition. Mix in the vanilla.
• Whisk the flour, cocoa powder, espresso powder, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl to combine. Add about half of the flour mixture to the mixer bowl and mix to combine. Scrape the bowl well, then add the buttermilk and mix on low speed to combine. Add the remaining flour mixture and mix on low speed to incorporate.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared cake pan and spread into an even layer. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Cool the cake for 10 minutes in the pan, then unlock and remove the sides of the pan and remove the parchment strips. Cool the cake completely on a cooling rack placed over a parchment-lined baking sheet.
• For the glaze: Put the chocolate and espresso powder in a medium bowl. Heat the cream to a simmer in a small saucepan over medium heat, then pour the cream over the chocolate. Let sit for 30 seconds, then stir until the mixture is smooth. Transfer to a measuring cup with a pour spout.
• Start by pouring glaze around the edges of the cake, then continue pouring and working towards the center of the cake until it is covered. Let the glaze set for 5 minutes, then gently transfer to a serving platter or cake stand (do not let the glaze set fully on the cooling rack). Once the glaze is set, the cake is ready to serve.

BROWN SUGAR/ CHOCOLATE CHIP POUND CAKE/MAPLE-ESPRESSO GLAZE

Steps:

• PREPARE THE CAKE:.
• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Butter 12-cup Bundt pan.
• Spray pan generously with nonstick spray.
• Dust pan lightly with flour.
• Mix chocolate chips and 2 tablespoons flour in medium bowl.
• Sift remaining flour with baking soda, baking powder, and salt into another medium bowl.
• Using electric mixer, beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
• Beat in vanilla extract and maple extract.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Mix in flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with buttermilk in 2 additions, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Fold in chocolate chip mixture.
• Transfer batter to prepared pan, spreading evenly.
• Bake cake until tester inserted near center comes out clean and cake begins to pull away from sides of pan, about 1 hour.
• Cool cake in pan on rack 30 minutes.
• Invert cake onto rack and cool completely.
• PREPARE THE GLAZE:.
• Combine powdered sugar, maple syrup, 2 tablespoons cream, and espresso powder in medium bowl.
• Whisk until smooth, adding more cream by 1/2 teaspoonfuls if glaze is too thick to drizzle.
• Spoon glaze decoratively over top of cake; let stand at room temperature until glaze is firm, about 1 hour.
• *Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover with cake dome and let stand at room temperature.
• GOOD TO KNOW:.
• Mixing the chocolate chips with a little flour before adding them to the batter helps the chips stay evenly suspended in the batter and evenly distributed throughout the baked cake (otherwise, they may sink to the bottom).

DECADENT CHOCOLATE BROWN SUGAR POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Do not preheat the oven.
• Butter and then flour a 12-cup bundt pan and shake out any excess flour.
• In a small bowl sift together cake flour cocoa powder and salt.
• In another small bowl stir together the baking soda and sour cream.
• In a large bowl with a heavy-duty electric mixer (I use my Kitchen Aid mixer) beat together 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter and both sugars (3 cups in all) until light and fluffy for a minimum of 10 minutes (no less than 10 minutes, this is important!).
• Beat in extracts and eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• With mixer at low speed, add in flour mixture and sour cream mixture alternately in batches, beating just until combined.
• Pour the batter into bundt pan and put it in the middle of a COLD oven.
• Set oven to 350°F (if using a dark metal pan set oven to 325 degrees).
• Bake for 1 hour and 25 minutes, or until cake tests done (I loosely tented with foil the last 25 minutes of baking).
• Cool cake in pan on a rack for 15 minutes, then turn out on a rack to cool completely.