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Chocolate Pound Cake Recipe ( Pound Cake )

Chocolate Pound Cake || Chocolate Cake Slice || How to make a chocolate pound cake with step-by-step photos

Chocolate pound cake is soft, moist, and buttery with a rich chocolate flavor. Melt in your mouth and delicious. This is the best homemade recipe for chocolate lovers.

This cake doesn’t need any frosting at all. Even then, you can do a shiny chocolate glaze over the top. But I love to have it plain with a hot cup of tea or coffee.

This is one of my favorite chocolate cake slices. It is made with cocoa powder, dark chocolate, butter, milk, and coffee granules to give it the richest chocolate flavor. Every bite is a chocolatey dream come true!

How to Store Homemade Pound Cake?

Store leftover pound cake in an airtight container or resealable bag at room temperature. It will stay fresh for about three days. If you want to store it for longer, transfer it to the fridge after day 3 and enjoy it within a week.

For the best result, follow my detailed step-by-step photo

instructions and tips below the recipe card

Tips for the best chocolate pound cake:

Don’t omit the coffee; it plays an important role in this recipe
Let the chocolate mixture cool down completely first, then use it. Don’t use a warm chocolate mixture; it will make your cake hard.
I used dark cooking chocolate in this recipe instead of cocoa powder. It will enhance the chocolaty flavor.
Using more eggs makes your cake super soft, but most people avoid using/having eggs. So you can use condensed milk instead of eggs.
I also used dry fruits to make a more delicious cake, which added almonds, walnuts, and pistachio. You can skip this as well.
Believe it or not, this pound cake tastes even better the day after you make it. Save a few servings and see for yourself!
Make your pound cake even more heavenly by topping it with my Pourable Chocolate Ganache!
Serve your chocolate pound cake with a scoop of creamy vanilla ice cream for the ultimate summer dessert.

For more Similar Recipes:

Chocolate muffins

Fudgy brownies

Vanilla tea cake

Chocolate brownie with vanilla ice cream

Orange cake

Vanilla chocolate cake

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Melt the crushed chocolate and butter in the milk over a low-medium flame.

Once the chocolate mixture is done, let it cool down completely.set aside

Sift the all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt in the bowl.

Stir to combine well.

Mix the dry flour is ready. Preheat the oven to 180 C or 350 F

Grease the baking pan and line the baking paper.

Dissolve the instant coffee with 2 tbsp hot water. When dissolved, stir in the chocolate mixture.

In a mixing bowl, crack the eggs one by one and whisk for a minute. Next, add sugar and then whisk with the electric mixer on high speed.

Until light and fluffy

Start adding the mixed flour little by little and fold. Scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary

After cooling down, add chocolate essence and half-chopped almonds, pistachio, and walnuts to the chocolate mixture. Stir to mix well. Add 4-5 tbsp prepared cake batter to the chocolate mixture.

Stir to combine very well. Now add the chocolate mixture back to the remaining cake batter.

Give it a good stir.

Pour the cake batter into the prepared cake pan. Sprinkle some crushed dry fruits. Bake for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.n

Chocolate pound cake is baked. Allow the cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Then loosen the cake from the sides of the pan using a butter knife.

Invert the cake onto a wire rack or any flat pan to cool it completely.

Once cooled, cut into slices.s

Serve the cake with tea or coffee.

Aloo Paratha Recipe ( Potato Stuffed Paratha )

Aloo Paratha | Stuffed Paratha || How to Make Aloo Paratha Recipe with step-by-step photos

Aloo Paratha is made from unleavened dough that is stuffed with a mixture of spicy mashed potatoes. The dough is rolled out and cooked on a hot Tawa with butter or ghee. It is typically served with butter, chutney, and yogurt. My aloo paratha recipe is simple and straightforward—

This is a dish commonly made in households across Pakistan. It consists of boiled mashed potatoes mixed with spices, which are then stuffed into the dough before being rolled out and pan-fried.

Flatbread is a delicious and satisfying breakfast option, especially when paired with hot coffee or tea. It's also a great choice for iftar, served alongside raita and chutney. You can adjust the spice level of the paratha to your preference, adding more or less salt and red chili powder.

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Also, you can cook the potatoes with some oil and temper them with cumin before adding all the spices. It just varies from person to person. I straightaway added all the crackle spices, roasted spices, powder spices, and green spices to the grated potatoes. There’s no right or wrong way here to make aloo paratha; it always tastes good no matter how you make it. So, go ahead.

Tips to make a good Aloo Paratha:

The key to making a good paratha lies in kneading a soft dough and rolling the paratha evenly. Once you have that down, you can stuff it with your favorite ingredients—spiced potatoes, in this case—and then fry it on medium-high heat.

Make sure that your tawa (skillet) is hot before placing the paratha on it. If it's only medium hot, the paratha will take longer to cook, resulting in a texture that is "not so soft."

This paratha is also vegan. While many people enjoy their parathas made with ghee, you can substitute oil for frying to keep it vegan. I love ghee, but for my parathas, I prefer oil.

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First, take all ingredients and prepare all veggies like potato, ginger, coriander leaves, and green chili.

Dry roast all whole spices, coriander and cumin seeds, pomegranate seeds, whole red chili, and black peppercorn on low flame for 2 minutes

Grind roasted spices coarsely and set aside.

Take 2 cups of the flour along with salt in the bowl/tray.

Start kneading the dough till the dough is formed.

Cover the dough with a kitchen towel and rest it for 15 minutes. Set aside...

Heat the oil in the frying pan, add the roasted seeds; let them crackle for 10 seconds. Then add chopped green chilies and grated ginger with curry leaves, and fry them with the oil for 1-2 minutes.

Add spices to the mashed potato, mix them well, transfer tempering ingredients along with roasted spices to the potato mixture, and mix them very well. well

Keep mixing with the remaining ingredients.

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Leave it for 10 minutes, then cover with the lid. with

Then make an equal-sized ball of potato dough.

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Divide the equal portions of the dough.

Give them all into ball shapes and flatten them between the palms.

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Take one dough ball at a time, spread it with the help of a finger, and apply a little oil/ghee. Roll the dough like a thick rope and fold it like a snail shell.

Repeat the same process with all remaining dough balls.

Now take one paratha ball at a time and roll it about 2-3 inches in a round shape. Place one potato ball in the center of the rolled ball. Bring all the edges together and pinch to seal the edges.

Repeat the same process with all remaining stuffed balls.

Flatten the stuffed ball using your hand and a rolling pin, and roll the dough to a circumference of 7-8 inches in diameter. The trick here is to apply equal pressure while rolling. If you do that, your paratha will turn around automatically.

Transfer the rolled paratha onto the hot Tawa.

Cook the side for a minute or two and then flip over, apply oil [around 1/4 teaspoon] on the half-cooked side, and flip again.

Now apply oil on the other side as well. Press with a spatula and cook the paratha till both sides have golden brown spots on them.

Repeat the same process with the remaining stuffed balls.

Aloo paratha is ready to serve with raita, chutney, and pickle.

Chocolate Pound Cake Recipe ( Pound Cake )

Aloo Paratha Recipe ( Potato Stuffed Paratha )

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