Chocolate Pound Cake
- 1 cup boiling water
- 2 unsweetened chocolate squares, cut up
- 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 12 cup butter
- 1 34 cups light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 12 cup sour cream
- In small bowl, pour boiling water over chocolate; let stand 20 minutes to cool.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Grease well and flour 9x5x3-inch loaf pan.
- Sift flour with soda and salt.
- In large bowl of electric mixer, let butter stand at room temperature until softened.
- At high speed, beat butter, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla until light and fluffy.
- At low speed, beat in flour mixture, in fourths alternately with sour cream, in thirds, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
- Beat in cooled chocolate mixture just until combined.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Make 60 to 70 minutes, until cake tester comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes.
- Transfer from pan to rack; cool completely.
boiling water, chocolate squares, flour, baking soda, salt, butter, light brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, sour cream
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-pound-cake-255889 (may not work)