German Chocolate Pound Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Yields:
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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
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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.
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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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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
FLUFFSTER
Bullhead City, Arizona
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