Hortensia's Best-Ever Chocolate Pound Cake

Name: Hortensia's Best-Ever Chocolate Pound Cake
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 296 milliliters buttermilk; 12 servings Cocoa powder or confectioners sugar, to finish; 237 milliliters unsweetened Van Leer Dutch process medium cocoa; 5 eggs; 2 teaspoons espresso extract (or substitute 2 teaspoons instant coffee dissolved in 1 tablespoon buttermilk); 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 59 milliliters sugar, to line pan; 651 milliliters sugar; 355 milliliters unsalted butter, at room temperature; 12 servings Unsalted butter, at room temperature (but still firm), to brush pan; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Hortensia's Best-Ever Chocolate Pound Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. Watching your figure? This vegetarian recipe has 600 calories, 7g of protein, and 31g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 10% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 12. If you have baking powder, van leer dutch process cocoa, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.

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Brush a 10-inch Bundt pan with the room-temperature (but still firm) unsalted butter.

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Unsalted Butter

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Kugelhopf Pan

Pour 1/2 cup sugar into the pan, swirling the sugar in the pan so that the chimney and sides are covered well. Turn the pan upside down to remove any excess sugar and set aside.

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Sugar

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Frying Pan

Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

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Baking Soda

Cocoa Powder

All Purpose Flour

Salt

Into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle, cream the butter on medium speed.

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Butter

Cream

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Bowl

Add the sugar and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy. Scrape down the bowl with a rubber spatula. Beating at medium speed, add the eggs, one by one, beating only until they are well blended.

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Sugar

Egg

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Spatula

Bowl

Beating on low speed, add a third of the flour mixture and a third of the buttermilk. Do this twice more with the remaining dry ingredients and buttermilk, scraping the bowl with a rubber spatula in between. Finally, beat the batter on medium speed for 30 seconds, until it is smooth.

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Buttermilk