Chocolate Pound Cake

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2012

Pound cake is wonderful. Chocolate cake is wonderful. Why is the combination so often a disappointment?

SERVES 8

Chocolate Pound Cake

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We retooled the classic pound cake recipe to make it plush and ultra-chocolaty. We did away with the need for chemical leaveners by properly creaming the butter and sugar. We found that room-temperature eggs worked best because they didn’t ...

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