Breakfast-in-Bed Pound Cake
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup whole or 2% milk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup (2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs, at room temperature
- 3 ounces dark chocolate (preferably semisweet), melted
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 1 tablespoon water
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Generously grease a Bundt or loaf pan (about 4 inches tall and 9 inches in diameter).
- Sift together the cake flour, baking powder, and salt and set aside.
- In a different bowl, combine the sour cream, milk, and vanilla extract and set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter on low speed for several minutes.
- Change to the whisk attachment, slowly add the sugar, then mix at medium-high speed for a few more minutes, until this mixture is light and fluffy.
- Turn the mixer to low and add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each one until incorporated.
- Stop the mixer and add half of the flour mixture, then mix slowly.
- Next, add half of the sour cream mixture and mix slowly.
- Repeat this process so that all the flour and sour cream mixtures are incorporated.
- Youll now have a bowl of vanilla batter.
- Pour one-third of the vanilla batter into a small bowl.
- Add the melted chocolate, corn syrup, and water and stir until smooth.
- This becomes your chocolate batter.
- Pour the vanilla batter into the prepared pan.
- Pour the chocolate batter over the vanilla batter.
- Use the tip of a spatula to swirl the chocolate batter lightly through the vanilla batter.
- Another way to achieve the marble effect is to put both batters in pastry bags and squeeze them into the pan in a random marbled pattern.
- Bake for 40 minutes, or until the top of the cake is springy and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- When the cake is done, remove it from the oven and allow it to cool completely in the pan on a rack.
- Once it is cool, invert the pan and allow the cake to gently fall onto a cake plate.
cake flour, baking powder, kosher salt, sour cream, milk, vanilla, cold unsalted butter, sugar, eggs, chocolate, light corn syrup, water
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/breakfast-in-bed-pound-cake-375786 (may not work)