Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, glazed pound chocolate cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Glazed Pound Chocolate Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Glazed Pound Chocolate Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
It won't, but you could bake in a larger pan if you'd rather - just keep an eye on. This is my Grandmother's from scratch Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Glaze recipe! Its just a good old fashioned chocolate pound cake recipe from my Grandmama that is sublime on its own, but when you add Grandmama's fudge icing, it becomes a favorite to all.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook glazed pound chocolate cake using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Glazed Pound Chocolate Cake:
- Get 1/3 cup Self-Raising Flour
- Prepare 1/2 cup Almond Meal
- Prepare *Note: Flour & Almond Meal weigh 125g in total
- Get 1 tablespoon Cocoa Powder *optional, depending on Dark Chocolate’s cocoa content
- Prepare 125 g Butter *cut into small pieces, softened at room temperature
- Prepare 125 g (2 x 1/4 cup) Caster Sugar
- Make ready 125 g Dark Chocolate *melted
- Take 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
- Take 2 teaspoons Milk
While this cake doesn't really need a frosting, I couldn't resist pouring a shiny chocolate glaze over the top. Bust out the recipe for our luscious glazed chocolate pound cake then get in the kitchen. The moist, deep chocolate flavor will give 'em all something to talk about! The presentation is just as important as how good it tastes.
Steps 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.
Use this delicious chocolate glaze on a wide range of desserts, including brownies, chocolate, cake, slices of pound cake, plain butter cookies, bars, or doughnuts. Make it thin to drizzle over a dessert or thicken it with extra powdered sugar for a more substantial coating. 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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