Hortensia's Best-Ever Chocolate Pound Cake

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Such a moist, rich cake! It has become a family favorite. I had many requests for it to be added to my Thanksgiving dessert staples, and am excited to making it in a beautiful fall bundt pan that I just purchased. I usually pipe home made whipped cream with a touch of brandy in it around the edge and dust the top with powdered sugar. I serve it with a few sliced strawberries.

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Excellent cake every time I make it. I have a few good recipes but this one always gets rave reviews wherever I take it. It certainly is for chocolate lovers because it's very dark and chocolaty tasting. It's such a plain cake but it's so good! Using buttermilk makes a huge difference, adding coffee to chocolate cakes makes them very moist and you won't taste the coffee at all.

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Dangerous! I can't stop eating this cake, I even put it in the freezer to make it more difficult.
The flavor is delicious ( i added a touch of cinnamon, despite someone saying it tasted like a boxed choc cake ~ it does not even come close. I was hoping it was a little denser like pound cake, but fantastic nonetheless!

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Delicious! My first bundt cake and I was extremely pleased! The batter looks very light, and not what you would call a deep dark chocolate look, but after being in the oven, the rich chocolate color developed! Let's just say I made it for a friend, who never received it! Oh so tasty!!

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What can I substitue butterilk with???? They dont carry this ingredient in my local store....please help!

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Now, I'm not sure if the cake was supposed to have a sweet crust because the picture of this looks moist all around. But it was delicious! The cake stayed moist for days in my cake carrier, if there were more than two people in my family would have been gone in a flash! Take the tips on the 350 degrees, add the vanilla after the eggs, you can dissolve the instant coffee into the buttermilk (so you'll use one extra tablespoon of buttermilk. I always set my timer 10 minutes before the reccommended baking time to peek through the window of my oven to check on how it's going.

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This recipe deserves 5 stars based on taste, though I agree there are some errors in the recipe. 350 degrees worked perfectly. For anyone who hasn't done this yet, make sure your bundt cake pan holds 12 cups of water. If it does, this will work, if not you will have to cut the recipe in half or use two large loaf pans. You will need to check for doneness sooner than the recipe calls for. I use a heavy metal Northland Bundt pan. A general rule for me in baking cake items is that the pan should never be more than 2/3 full or it will overflow. I used a different brand of baking cocoa, it was fine. Inserting a knife and checking to see if it comes out clean at the end of the cooking time is recommended. I used non stick cooking spray instead of butter in the pan, along with the sugar and it was fine. I put in the extracts in the order of the list of ingredients, which is after the eggs. This cake comes out wonderful if you read all the hints from the readers. I am glad I read them first, thank you!

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I must say that I haven't baked in a while. I am so glad that I read the reviews before making this cake. I changed the temperature to 350 and because I have some knowledge of baking, I did notice that a step was missing, but I added it in when I was baking it!!! The cake came out so good, that it was gone in a matter of a day, so I decided to bake another one and it still stood out...This inspired me to have a bake sale...well maybe not yet, I still haven't mastered the red velvet cake....any good recipes out there? The cake was sooooooo good.

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There are several problems with the recipe. When reading the reviews, I was able to avoid them. This is a recipe for a 12 cup bundt pan, which is huge. I cut the recipe in half.
Don't forget to add the vanilla and espresso mixture, after adding eggs. Bake at 350 for 50-60min.
This is the chocolate cake that the family asks for over and over again!

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I love to bake and had been looking for a great chocolate cake pound cake. My daughter actually found the recipe and brought it to a family gathering. It was wonderful! When I tried it the results were great as well. I love this cake and will put it right at the top of my favorites. However, this recipe is not for someone who doesn't enjoy baking and is not willing to put the time involved to get superior results.