“Chocolate is nature’s way of making up for Mondays.”
Anonymous
CHOCOLATE & CHOCOLATE-CHIP POUND CAKE
Another recipe I tweaked to suit the ingredients available on hand. I have great fun playing around with recipes…and always have eager testers on hand. The daughter is always the first one to check and grade a new experiment, with the son not far behind.
This one got a THUMBS UP!!!
Ingredients:
Butter- 1 cup or 200gms
Eggs – 4 (large)
Sugar – 1 cup, granular
Flour – 1 1/2 cups
Whole-wheat flour – 1/2 cup
Cocoa – ½ cup (dissolved in warm milk to form a paste
Baking powder – 1 tsp
Salt – 1 pinch
Chocolate chips – 1/2 cup
Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp
Method:
- Grease and flour a 10″ bundt pan.Preheat oven to 325deg/175deg
- Sift tog flours + baking powder + salt
- Cream butter and sugar
- Beat in eggs 1 by 1, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in vanilla essence.
- On low speed, beat in the flour bit by bit in 3-4 lots.
- Divide the batter into two halves.
- On low, beat in the cocoa mixture into one half, and fold in the chocolate chips into the other half.
- First put a layer of the chocolate batter and smoothen it out, followed by the vanilla-chocolate chip batter.
- Bake for approx 1 hr till done. (If top seems to be getting too brown, loosely cover top with foil until done.)
- Leave in pan for 10 mins to cool, and then turn it out on rack to cool completely.
