Lisa Yarde
If you’re looking for a moist pound cake full of chocolate flavor, you’ve found it here with this Chocolate-Sour Cream Pound Cake. Rich, decadent, and bursting with chocolate flavor — what more could you ask for?! Well, you could drizzle the cake with a glossy chocolate ganache for a dazzling finish.
Chocolate-Sour Cream Pound Cake With Ganache
This dense Chocolate Sour Cream Pound Cake is a chocolate lovers dream, topped with a waterfall of velvety chocolate ganache
Servings: 12
Calories: 559kcal
Equipment
- Measuring Cups/Spoons Set
- 2-Quart Saucepan
- Glass Nesting Bowls
- High-Heat Scraper
- 5-Quart Stand Mixer
- Cast-Iron Bundt Pan
- Glass Liquid Measuring Cups
Ingredients
THE CAKE, CREAM
- 2 Sticks unsalted butter (16 Tbsp.), softened
- 3 cups Sugar
- 1 cup Sour cream
- 6 Eggs
- 2 tsp. Pure vanilla extract
COMBINE
- 2 ¼ cups All-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. Instant espresso powder
- 1 tsp. Baking powder
- ½ tsp. Table salt
- ¾ cup Mini semisweet chocolate chips
- ¾ cup Unsweetened cocoa powder
THE GANACHE, HEAT
- ¾ cup Mini semisweet chocolate chips
- ⅓ cup Heavy cream
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°. Thoroughly coat the inside of a 13-cup cast-iron fluted cake (Bundt) pan with butter, then with flour.
- For the cake, cream butter and sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer with paddle attachment until light and fluffy, 5 minutes. Add sour cream and beat until combined. Add eggs, 2 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
- Combine flour, cocoa, espresso powder, baking powder, and salt. Beat half the flour mixture into creamed mixture. Add remaining flour mixture, beat on medium speed 2 minutes, then fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth top. Bake cake until a toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean, 1¼-1½ hours. Let cake cool in pan on a rack 30 minutes before turning out to cool completely.
- For the ganache, heat chocolate chips and cream in a saucepan over low, stirring until chocolate melts; pour over cooled cake.
Notes
Per serving, Calories: 559
Nutrition Facts
1 servings per container
- Amount Per ServingCalories559
- % Daily Value *
- Total Fat
31g
48%
- Saturated Fat 18g 90%
- Cholesterol 156mg 52%
- Sodium 193mg 9%
- Total Carbohydrate
71g
24%
- Protein 8g 16%
* The % Daily Value tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
