Recipe for cooking chocolate cherry pound cake with bittersweet chocolate glaze

Desserts to Go with Coffee and Tea :: Buttery Pound Cakes

Chocolate Cherry Pound Cake with Bittersweet Chocolate Glaze

Posted by MaryEllen29 at recipegoldmine.com 9/5/02 12:29:37 pm

Cake
1 stick (1/2 c.) salted butter, softened
1 c. sugar
2 lrg. eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
1 1/2 c. flour
1/4 c. cocoa powder (regular, not Dutch process)
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. milk
3/4 c. tart dried cherries
1 c. bittersweet chocolate chips or chunks

Glaze
3 oz. (about 1/2 c.) bittersweet
    chocolate chips or chunks
1/4 c. whipping cream

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 5 x 9-in. nonstick loaf pan and set aside.

To make the cake: With an electric mixer cream the butter and sugar in a lrg. bowl until very fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at time, until well beaten in, scraping down the sides of the bowl often. Beat in the vanilla extract or flavoring.

In a sm. bowl, mix together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture in three parts to the creamed butter-egg mixture alternately with the milk, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Mix only until well combined; do not over mix at this point. Fold in cherries and chocolate chips.

Scrape the batter into the greased pan, filling evenly. Rap the pan sharply on a counter several times to release any air bubbles, then smooth the surface of the batter.

Bake in preheated oven for about 50 to 60 mins., or until cake tests done (when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean). Rotate the pan after the first 30 mins. of baking. Unmold the cake and turn right side up. Cool thoroughly before glazing.

To make the glaze: In a sm. pan or in a microwave oven, gently heat the chocolate and cream together until chocolate is just melting. Remove from the heat and stir until chocolate is thoroughly melted and mixture is smooth. Let cool to almost room temperature but still liquid. Pour over cake. Let set 15 mins. before serving.