My vote for an everyday/on-the-go cake goes to the ‘Pound Cake’!! Its the one cake that can eaten without frosting, or then spruced up with a ganache or drizzled with chocolate…whatever!! Sturdy enough to go for a picnic, and can be fiddled around with to suit your tastebuds. Believe me, I have made this one umpteen times and in all avatars. Mocha, chocolate, marbled, plain vanilla, vanilla with nuts & chocolate chips, chocolate orange, brown sugar and chocolate chips….the end result is always rewarding. Great recipe from Better Homes & Gardens…just tweaked a bit. Am posting my version of the Mocha Chocolate Chip Pound Cake…ENJOY!!
MOCHA CHOC CHIP POUND CAKE
Ingredients
- Butter- 1 cup or 200gms
- Eggs – 4 large
- Sugar – 1 cup granular
- Flour – 1 1/2 cups
- Whole-wheat flour – 1/2 cup
- Baking powder – 1 tsp
- Salt – 1 pinch
- Chocolate chips – 1/2 cup
- Instant coffee- 2 tbs
- Coffee Essence – 1 tsp
- Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp
Instructions
- Grease and flour a 10″ bundt pan.
- Preheat oven to 325deg/175deg
- Sift tog flours + baking powder+ salt
- Cream butter and sugar well
- Beat in eggs 1 by 1, beating well after each addition
- Beat in essence + coffee and beat in till coffee dissolves
- On low speed, beat in the flour bit by bit till well incorp (4-5 goes)
- Now fold in the chocolate chips (Grate in some chocolate if desired . Can also add chopped walnuts )Turn into pan and bake for approx 1 hr till done . (If top seems to be getting too brown, loosely cover top with foil until done.)L
- Leave in pan for 10 mins to cool, and then turn it out on rack to cool completely.
Notes
Note: Can also make a marble cake, by melting choc and folding it into 1/3 of batter. In this case, put a third of white batter into base , level out. Then put in a third into which melted chocolate has been stirred in (abt 50gms dark chocolate) and level it, and then turn in the remaining third of the white batter and level out. Marble it gently with a wooden skewer.HAPPY BAKING!!
Note…Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips in this case taste divine.
Note…Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips in this case taste divine.