Mom's Chocolate Intrigue Cake

"My kids and all my nieces and nephews are crazy about this cake. It's a pound cake with a chocolate circle in the middle of each slice."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 20mins
Ingredients:
15
Yields:
1 cake
Serves:
12-16
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ingredients

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directions

  • I think you could use store-bought chocolate syrup in this recipe, but the syrup made in the original recipe is not as thick, so store-bought might change the outcome of the cake.
  • Place the ingredients for the chocolate syrup in a saucepan on the stove and cook over medium high until it reaches a syrupy consistency. Pour into a chilled bowl and place in fridge to cool quickly.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a tube pan with removable bottom. Mine has a fairly large center hole of about 4 inches.
  • Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each.
  • Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Pour milk into the measuring cup and add vanilla.
  • Add the dry ingredients and the milk to the cake a little at a time, alternating between the two.
  • Stir the baking soda into the chocolate syrup.
  • Pour 2/3 of the batter into the prepared tube pan, smoothing out the top.
  • Mix the syrup into the remaining batter and spread this batter on top of the other batter, again smoothing the top.
  • Bake for 45 minutes. Then place aluminum foil over the pan and bake an additional 20-25 more minutes or until done.
  • We usually serve this cake without frosting, but for birthdays, I would add my Italian Chocolate Frosting.
  • When sliced, the chocolate should have moved down to form a circle in the middle of the cake that the kids say looks like a person's head and shoulders. They get a kick out of the slightly different shape each time the cake is baked.

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  1. All kids LOVE this cake; our entire extended family calls it "Chocolate Head Cake". Tastes best with no frosting. I have a plain old non-detachable tube pan (center not even 3") and it works fine with this recipe.
     
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My name is Julie, and I love to cook. I've even gotten to the point where I don't mind the dishes!
 
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