Dark chocolate chips wrapped within moist kokosnoot pound cake, topped alongside nighttime chocolate ganache as well as shredded kokosnoot this Coconut-Dark Chocolate Pound Cake is a chocolate & kokosnoot lover's dream.
Happy back-to-school, everyone! Tomorrow is the outset twenty-four hours of schoolhouse alongside the students for me! And I'm nervous. I'm ever nervous for the outset twenty-four hours of school. See, it's non merely the kids who learn nervous. Some of us teachers do, too!
Know what calms my nerves? Chocolate. Of course of report it does. I am a chocoholic, later on all. Oh, as well as hilarious back-to-school videos similar this i ...
Have you lot seen this "Baby Got Class" back-to-school parody yet? I mean, it's totally hilarious. I laughed my sides off the outset fourth dimension I saw it.
So later on I watched this video near 10 times, I decided to calm the residuum of my nerves alongside my onetime friend chocolate.
Dark chocolate, to hold upwardly exact. Mixed alongside coconut. And wrapped upwardly inwards kokosnoot pound cake.
Yes, that ought to arrive at the trick. Don't you lot think?
For an extra nighttime chocolate punch, I used Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips
in this cake as well as inwards the chocolate ganache glaze.
in this cake as well as inwards the chocolate ganache glaze. Not solely are the Ghirardelli chips bittersweet for a stronger nighttime chocolate taste, they're also a chip bigger than regular chocolate chips ...
... as well as arrive at a cool poke-a-dot await inwards the baked cake.
See? Aren't the chocolate chip poke-a-dots cute?
I'm certain you lot could usage regular semi-sweet chocolate chips merely fine if you lot don't experience similar going bittersweet. Or poke-a-dotty.
When it came to whipping upwardly a chocolate ganache glaze for this scrumptious cake ... which I merely knew it had to choose ... , I turned to i of my absolute favorite cookbooks for help ... The Cook's Illustrated Baking Book
...Cook's Illustrated never lets me down! I swear past times their recipes as well as methods ... whenever I'm inwards incertitude of how to best arrive at something inwards the kitchen, I plow to them.
And allow me nation ya, their chocolate glaze did non disappoint.
Sprinkled alongside a touching on of shredded coconut, it was merely what I was looking frontward to piece of occupation past times off this coconutty pound cake creation.
Just perfect for calming outset twenty-four hours of schoolhouse nerves.
So, teachers, students, as well as back upwardly staff ... those who start dorsum this week, weeks ago, or withal to come upwardly inwards the coming weeks ... I want you lot a real happy dorsum to school! And I want I could ship each as well as every i of you lot a slice of cake ... whether you're nervous or not.
Coconut-Dark Chocolate Pound Cake
Source: A Tracey original; chocolate glaze recipe from The Cook's Illustrated Baking Book: Baking Demystified
(Printable recipe)
(Printable recipe)
Ingredients
Pound Cake:
- 3 c. granulated sugar
- 1/2 lb. (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 2 T. Crisco shortening
- 6 eggs
- 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. coconut extract
- 3 c. all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 c. milk
- 1 c. shredded coconut
- 3/4 c. (6 oz.) Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 c. heavy cream
- 2 T. corn syrup
- 1/2 c. (4 oz.) Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate chips
- 1/4 to 1/2 c. shredded coconut
- FOR THE POUND CAKE: Cream the sugar, butter, as well as Crisco alongside an electrical mixer, near 3-4 minutes. Add vanilla extract, kokosnoot extract, as well as eggs, beating for a few seconds later on the improver of each egg. Beat at medium speed alongside an electrical mixer near 10-15 minutes. Be certain to musical rhythm out for the total time.
- Combine flour as well as baking powder. With the mixer on low, add together flour mixture as well as milk, alternately, to the creamed saccharide as well as eggs mixture. Mix later on each improver until merely combined. Gently stir inwards shredded kokosnoot as well as bittersweet chocolate chips.
- Pour batter into a subway scheme pan that has been generously sprayed alongside non-stick baking spray alongside flour {or buttered & floured}. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until a toothpick inserted inwards the piece of occupation past times comes out clean. Cool near a 1/2 an hr inwards the pan; withdraw cake from pan past times inverting pan onto a cooling rack. Cool completely.
- FOR THE CHOCOLATE GLAZE: Place heavy cream as well as corn syrup inwards a pocket-size saucepan; choose to a simmer over medium heat. Remove from heat. Add chocolate, cover, as well as allow sit down for v minutes. Whisk gently until chocolate is melted as well as glaze is smooth.
- Drizzle over cooled cake. Sprinkle alongside additional 1/4 to 1/2 loving cup shredded coconut.
Enjoy!
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