Chocolate Pound Cake with White Chocolate Frosting

Name: Chocolate Pound Cake with White Chocolate Frosting
Yield: Serves 10
Ingredients: 3 level tsp baking powder; 200 ml whipping cream, crème fraîche or sour cream; 225 g soft brown sugar; 225 g sour cream or crème fraîche; 3 large eggs; 1 tsp real vanilla essence; unsweetened cocoa powder, to dust; 100 g butter, plus more for greasing; 225 g real dark chocolate; 225 g flour; 200 g real white chocolate

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Real Chocolate

By Chantal Coady

Published 2003

About

This is based on the classic pound cake recipe. It is a very simple cake, not too rich and suitable for making on a large scale.

Ingredients

100 g butter, plus more for greasing
225 g real dark chocolate
225

Cake
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/Gas 4 and butter a large kugelhopf mould (any mould will do, but keep checking as cooking times will vary in other moulds). Melt half the chocolate as described.

Sift together the flour and baking powder. Using