Nanas Chocolate Pound Cake Recipes

NANA'S CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease and flour a 10 to 12 cup bundt pan.
• Cream the butter, sugar, and shortening together for about 3 minutes.
• Add the eggs one at a time and beat well.
• Sift the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add the dry ingredients alternately with milk, being sure to blend well.
• Add vanilla extract; mix well.
• Pour into the prepared pan, being cautious not to overfill the pan, and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

NANA'S CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 325 degrees In a mixing bowl In a mixing bowl, add sifted flour and cocoa, baking powder, and salt. Whisk together and set aside. Using a stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar. While stand mixer is still running add one egg at a time. Once eggs are mixed in slowly add mixing bowl of dry ingredients alternately with milk; add vanilla. Bake in a greased and lined bundt cake pan or angel food cake pan at 325 for 1 hour and 15 minutes. When cake is finished baking it will look slightly moist on the top, like it should continue baking for another 5-10 minutes, you want it to look like this. Allow cake to cool. Go around the edges of the cake with a butter knife and turn cake out on a plate, top side up if using an angel food cake pan. Dust cake with 10X sugar

NANA'S CHOCOLATE CHIP BRANDY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
• Cream the cream cheese and the butter together until light and fluffy.
• Add the sugar and cream well.
• Add the vanilla and the brandy, mixing well.
• Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well each time.
• Sift the flour, cornstarch and baking powder together, and fold in the chocolate chips.
• Add the dry ingredients/chips to the egg/sugar mixture gradually, mixing well after each addition.
• Heavily grease a bundt or a 10 inch tube pan, and pour the cake batter into the pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Reduce the oven heat to 300 degrees and bake for another 1 hour and 20 minutes.

GINA'S CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 10-inch Bundt pan and dust with cocoa powder.
• In a large bowl of a stand mixer, add the butter and the sugar. Using the paddle attachment, cream together until light and fluffy and the volume has increased. Add the eggs and egg yolk, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
• In another mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, the salt, and baking powder.
• Add the dry ingredients alternatively with the buttermilk to the butter and egg mixture ending with the flour. Stir in the vanilla and pour the batter into the prepared Bundt pan. Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean. Let cool on a wire rack before turning out onto a serving plate and slicing.
• Add the chocolate to a medium-sized bowl. In a small saucepan over low heat, add the cream and bring to a low simmer. Pour the cream over the chocolate and add the corn syrup. Once the chocolate melts, whisk together to combine. Drizzle over the cake and serve.

NANA'S SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition.
• Add flour, salt and vanilla.
• Bake in tube pan at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes.