Cakes By Zana: Holidays Cake

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Happy Holidays ...

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Chocolate Pound Cake

Chocolate Pound Cake
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees

1 cup butter

1/2 cup Crisco

3 cups sugar

5 large eggs

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

3 cups flour

1/2 cup cocoa

1/2 tsp Salt

1 1/4 cups milk

1 tsp Vanilla extract

Cream butter, Crisco and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and mix well. Sift baking powder, flour and cocoa together three times. Add dry ingredients to butter/egg mixture alternating with milk beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Bake for 1 hour and 40 minutes. Begin testing for doneness after 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool in pan for ten minutes then remove and cool on rack.

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Best Pound Cake

Ingredients:

2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened, plus additional for buttering pan

3 cups sifted cake flour (not self-rising; sift before measuring) plus additional for dusting

3/4 teaspoon salt

3 cups sugar

7 large eggs, at room temperature 30 minutes

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 cup heavy cream

10-inch tube pan (4 1/2 inches deep; not with a removable bottom) or a 10-inch bundt pan (3 1/4 inches deep; 3-qt capacity)

Preparation:

Put oven rack in middle position, but do not preheat oven.

Generously butter pan and dust with flour, knocking out excess flour.

Sift together sifted flour (3 cups) and salt into a bowl. Repeat sifting into another bowl (flour will have been sifted 3 times total).

Beat together butter (2 sticks) and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes in a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment or 6 to 8 minutes with a handheld mixer. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, then beat in vanilla. Reduce speed to low and add half of flour, then all of cream, then remaining flour, mixing well after each addition. Scrape down side of bowl, then beat at medium-high speed 5 minutes. Batter will become creamier and satiny.

Spoon batter into pan and rap pan against work surface once or twice to eliminate air bubbles. Place pan in (cold) oven and turn oven temperature to 350°F. Bake until golden and a wooden pick or skewer inserted in middle of cake comes out with a few crumbs adhering, 1 to 1 1/4 hours. Cool cake in pan on a rack 30 minutes. Run a thin knife around inner and outer edges of cake, then invert rack over pan and invert cake onto rack to cool completely.