DARK CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F Butter a 10-inch Bundt pan or two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
• In a bowl, gradually whisk milk into cocoa powder to make a smooth paste; whisk in yogurt and set aside. In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a large bowl, using an elecric mixer, beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy; beat in eggs and vanilla. Using a wooden spoon, stir in flour mixture, alternately with milk mixture, making 3 additions of flour and 2 additions of milk. Fold in chocolate chips.
• Spread into prepared pan, smoothing top. Bake for 60-70 minutes or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean with a few moist crumbs clinging to it. Let cool in pan on a rack for 15 mintues. Invert onto rack, remove pan and let cool completely. Serve dusted with icing sugar.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180C.
• Beat the butter with the raw sugar in a medium bowl until they completely mix.
• Add the eggs and vanilla and keep beating.
• Add the melted dark chocolate to the bowl and beat slowly until everything is well mixed. Do not overbeat the mix.
• Mix the flour with the baking soda in a different bowl.
• Add a portion of the mixed flour to the bowl where the chocolate is, then add half of the boiling water while beating.
• Add the rest of the flour and the rest of the boiling water to the chocolate and mix until the flour is no longer visible.
• Line a pound cake mold with parchment paper, then pour the mixture in it.
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• Lower the heat of the oven to 150C and bake for 20 more minutes.
• Remove the pound cake from the oven, let it cool off completely before unmolding, and serve.