Best 6 Deep Chocolate Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipes

CHOCOLATE SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F.
• In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar for 3-5 minutes or until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, followed by vanilla, mixing until incorporated after each addition.
• Mix in sour cream until well combined.
• Sift in flour, cocoa powder, espresso powder, baking powder, and baking soda. Fold in with a rubber spatula. Mixture should be fully combined, but do not overmix.
• Carefully pour in boiling water and gently mix to combine (don't splash any onto yourself!). Mix only until the batter is fully combined.
• Spray a 10-12 inch fluted tube or Bundt pan with baking spray, including all crevices. Pour batter into prepared pan. Carefully drop once or twice from an inch or two onto the counter to elmininate air bubbles.
• Bake in preheated oven for 60-70 minutes, or until a toothpick entered into the center of the cake comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out on to a wire rack to cool completely.

CHOCOLATE SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 °F. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt pan.
• Using an electric mixer, cream together the butter, sour cream and sugar. Add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla.
• In another bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder and cocoa. Add 1/2 the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, beat well, add the remaining 1/2 flour mixture, and continue to beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. Continue to bake for an additional 15 minutes if necessary, but do not open the oven to check the cake for at least 1 hour.

CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and mist a 5-cup loaf pan with non-stick spray.
• Cream the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl on medium-high speed for 3 to 5 minutes, or until very pale and fluffy.
• Scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl with a silicone spatula, then add the first egg, mixing in on medium speed until completely incorporated.
• Continue to add eggs, one at a time, scraping the bowl and allowing each one to fully incorporate before adding the next.
• Stir in the sour cream and vanilla on medium-low speed until well-blended.
• Add the flour, dark cocoa, regular cocoa, salt, and baking soda, folding together gently until just barely combined.
• Transfer the batter to the prepared pan, and bake the cake until a skewer inserted in the thickest part comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs (approx. 75 to 85 minutes).
• Cool the cake in the pan for 30 minutes, then remove it from the pan and allow it to finish cooling on a wire rack.

SOUR CREAM DARK CHOCOLATE CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 9-inch round baking pans.
• Dissolve cocoa powder in boiling water in a bowl; set aside to cool completely.
• Beat white sugar and canola oil together in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth; add eggs, one at time, beating well after each addition. Stir vanilla extract into creamed mixture.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl. Mix flour mixture and sour cream alternately into the creamed mixture. Beat cocoa mixture into batter until incorporated. Pour batter into the prepared baking pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each cake comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack. Wrap cakes in plastic wrap and store in refrigerator.
• Beat butter in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy and smooth; scrape down sides of bowl with a rubber spatula. Mix confectioners' sugar, 1/2 cup at a time, into the creamed butter until sugar is incorporated. Add salt and beat on medium-high until frosting is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
• Place one cake on a serving plate; spread 1/4 the frosting on the top of cake. Place second cake on the frosting layer; spread 1/4 the frosting on second cake. Place the third cake atop the second cake. Spread the remaining frosting on the top cake and around sides of entire layer cake.

DEEP CHOCOLATE SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven; preheat oven to 325°.
• Grease the inside of a 10-inch Bundt pan; dust the pan with flour; tap out excess flour.
• Sift together the flours, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt into a bowl; set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle attachment, beat the butter at medium speed until very creamy, about 2 minutes.
• Gradually beat in the sugar.
• Increase speed to med-high and beat until the mixture is well blended and light, about 4 minutes.
• At medium speed, beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
• In a small bowl, stir the vanilla extract into the sour cream.
• If your mixer has a splatter shield attachment, add it now.
• At low speed, add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture in three additions, alternating with the sour cream mixture in two additions and mixing just until blended.
• Scrape batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.
• Bake the cake for 65-75 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean.
• Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
• Invert the cake onto the rack and let cool completely.
• Recommended to glaze w/ Bittersweet Chocolate Glaze (recipe posted separately).

MOCHA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with coffee and sour cream, beating well after each addition. , Pour into three greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 30-35 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely., In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until fluffy. Beat in the chocolate, coffee and vanilla until blended. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar. Spread between layers and over top and sides of cake. Cover and refrigerate until serving.