Chocolate Pound Cake – Cook book available from our Gloven store
Scrummy Chocolate Pound Cake
Pound Cake with Cocoa
Ingredients:
250g (8oz) unsalted butter
5 eggs
250g (8oz) caster sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
40g ( 1 ½ oz.) bitter cocoa
Serves 6-8. Preparation time: 15 minutes. Cooking time: 35-40 minutes. Essential equiptment: 1kg/2lb loaf tin.
Method
1) Preheat the oven to 160 degrees, Gas mark 3. Grease and flour the baking tin. Gently melt the butter in a saucepan without overheating. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat for one minute with the sugar. In another bowl sift together the flour, baking powder and cocoa.
2) Add the flour and cocoa blend to the egg-sugar mixture and stir in, then add the melted butter and stir again.
3) Pour the mixture into the prepared tin, put in the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes. Carefully unmould the cake while still hot and leave to cool on a baking rack. Eat warm for preference.
This recipe is from the book Chocolat & available at gloven.co.uk
April 28, 2011 | No Comments
