Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe
3 c Unsifted flour
1/4 ts Baking soda
2 c Sugar
1 c Butter, softened
6 Eggs
1 ts Vanilla extract or flavor
1 pk Sour cream (8 oz)
1 c Mini chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Stir together flour and baking soda. In mixer bowl, beat sugar and butter until fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until smooth; add vanilla. Beat in sour cream alternately with flour mixture. Fold in chocolate chips. Pour into well-greased and floured 10- inch fluted tube cake pan. Bake 1 hr. and 15 min. or until wooden pick comes out clean. Cool; remove from pan. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar if desired. Yield: 1 ten-inch cake
Chocolate Cinnamon Angel Food Cake
1 1/2 c Egg whites (10-12 eggs)
1 c Sifted flour
1 1/2 c Sifted confectioners sugar
3 tb Unsweetened cocoa
1/2 ts Cinnamon
1 1/2 ts Cream of tartar
1 ts Vanilla
1 c Sugar
Bring egg whites to room temperature, about 1 hour. Meanwhile, sift flour, cocoa, powdered sugar, and cinnamon together three times. Set aside. In a large mixer bowl, beat the egg whites, cream of tartar, and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add the sugar, 2 Tablespoons at a time, beating on high speed until stiff peaks form. Transfer to a larger bowl if needed. Sift about 1/4th of the flour mixture over the beaten egg whites. Fold in gently. Repeat, folding in the remaining flour mixture in fourths. Pour into ungreased 10 inch tube pan. Bake on the lowest rack in the oven at 350 degrees F for 40-45 minutes or until the top springs back when touched. Immediately invert cake (leave in pan); cool thoroughly. Loosen sides of cake from pan; remove.
Makes 16 slices.
Chocolate Cranberry Cake
1/2 lb Butter; room temperature
2/3 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
3 tb Cranberry liqueur, (optional)
8 oz Semi-sweet chocolate; melted
4 Eggs; separated
1/3 c Cake flour
1 1/3 c Fresh cranberries; chopped
3 tb Sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line bottom of a 9-inch springform pan with parchment.
Whip butter with electric beater until light and fluffy. Add sugar and beat for 2 to 3 minutes. Mix in vanilla, liqueur and chocolate. Add yolks one at a time. Mix in flour and cranberries.
Whip egg whites in clean bowl until soft peaks form. Add 3 tablespoons sugar and continue whipping until stiff.
Fold 1/3 of whites into batter. Then fold remaining whites into mixture. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes, then cover with foil and cool completely.
Chocolate Cream Roll
6 tb Flour
6 tb Cocoa
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
4 md Eggs
3/4 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
Icing sugar
Whipped Cream
Sift flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt, THREE times, onto a sheet of waxed paper. Beat egg whites til thick and fluffy. Add sugar gradually while beating, then add yolks and vanilla. Mixture should be thick and lemony. Sift dry mixture over egg mix and fold in gently. Prepare an edged cookie pan by greasing and lining with waxed paper. Pour batter onto pan and spread evenly. Bake at 400 F for 12-15 minutes. When baked, remove from pan and roll in a damp tea towel on which you have sprinkled some icing sugar. When cool, unroll, trim off any crusty edges. Spread whipped cream on cake and roll up. Serve with a dollop of whipped cream on the side.
Chocolate Eclair Cake
1 Box whole graham crackers
6 oz Package inst vanilla pudding mix
3 c Milk
8 oz Carton whipped topping
Glaze:
1 c Sugar
1/8 ts Salt
1/3 c Cocoa
1/4 c Milk
1/4 c Butter
1 ts Vanilla extract
Butter 13 x 9 inch pan and cover bottom with layer whole graham crackers. Mix pudding mix and milk beating well. Fold in whipped topping. Spread half of mixture over crackers in pan. Cover with another layer of crackers. Spread remaining mix over crackers. Top with a layer of crackers.
In saucepan, combine sugar, salt, cocoa and milk. Bring to a boil and boil one minute. Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla. Beat until smooth and spread on top of crackers. Refrigerate. Much more delicious if not served until next day.
Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
6 oz Chocolate, semisweet
3/4 c Butter
2/3 c Sugar
8 Eggs; separated
1 1/3 c Hazelnuts; ground
2/3 c Bread crumbs or matzo meal
1 ts Cinnamon, ground
Chop chocolate into small pieces. Place in small bowl over hot water to melt, stirring occasionally.
Beat butter with half the sugar until soft and light. Beat in egg yolks, one at a time. Combine hazelnuts, bread crumbs and cinnamon and stir in.
Whip egg whites. Beat in remaining sugar in slow stream and whip until firm peaks form. Stir 1/4 of whites into batter. Fold in rest with a rubber spatula.
Pour batter into greased 10-inch cake pan lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350 degrees F until well risen and firm in center, about 45 minutes. Invert cake onto rack and cool a few minutes. Lift off pan and cool completely. If prepared in advance, wrap cake in plastic and refrigerate up to 5 days or freeze up to 1 month. Bring cake to room temperature before serving.
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