Name: German Chocolate Pound Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 5 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 1 10-inch cake
Ingredients: 1 (4 ounce) package sweet baking chocolate; 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened; 1 3/4 cups sugar; 3 eggs; 1 egg yolk; 2 3/4 cups flour; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; 3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar; 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 3/4 cup milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 (4 ounce) package sweet baking chocolate; 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine; 1 egg white; 1 cup sifted powdered sugar; 1 -2 tablespoon water

Recipe by FLUFFSTER

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This is a great switch on dark chocolate once in awhile. You can use the glaze shown below, or just hit it with some powdered sugar. I think that the cinnamon is a welcome addition. Enjoy! I take my baking chocolate squares out of the box they come in and put them in zippered bags, but I think the name of the chocolate is "German's Sweet Chocolate."

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ingredients

1 (4 ounce) package sweet baking chocolate
1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
1 ³⁄₄ cups sugar
3 eggs
1 egg yolk
2 ³⁄₄ cups flour
¹⁄₂ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
³⁄₄ teaspoon cream of tartar
¹⁄₄ teaspoon ground cinnamon
³⁄₄ cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the glaze
1 (4 ounce) package sweet baking chocolate
1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine
1 egg white
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
1 -2 tablespoon water

directions

Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Line bottom of pan with waxed paper. Set aside.
Place chocolate in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts. Let cool.
Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add eggs and yolk, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add chocolate, mixing well.
Combine flour and next 4 ingredients; add flour mixture to chocolate mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into pan. Bake at 350°F for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool on a wire rack. Pour sweet chocolate glaze over top of cake, if using.
For the glaze:
Combine chocolate and butter in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts. Cool.
Beat egg white (at room temperature) at high speed of an electric mixer 1 minmute or until stiff peaks form. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating until stiff peaks form and sugar dissolves,(2 to 4 minutes).
Fold chocolate mixture into egg whites. Add water, stirring until smooth.

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"This is a great switch on dark chocolate once in awhile. You can use the glaze shown below, or just hit it with some powdered sugar. I think that the cinnamon is a welcome addition. Enjoy! I take my baking chocolate squares out of the box they come in and put them in zippered bags, but I think the name of the chocolate is "German's Sweet Chocolate.""

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creation by FLUFFSTER

10/16/2007

This is a great switch on dark chocolate once in awhile. You can use the glaze shown below, or just hit it with some powdered sugar. I think that the cinnamon is a welcome addition. Enjoy! I take my baking chocolate squares out of the box they come in and put them in zippered bags, but I think the name of the chocolate is "German's Sweet Chocolate."