GERMAN CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE




Treat yourself and your family to this favorite with an added touch. The glaze puts the icing on the cake! This recipe comes from the neighboring state of Alabama, where good cooks abound.


1 4-ounce package sweet baking chocolate
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 3/4 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 egg yolk (reserve egg white for glaze)
2 3/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Sweet Chocolate Glaze (see below)


Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Line bottom of pan with waxed paper. Set aside.
Place chocolate in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts. Let cool.
Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of electric mixer. Add eggs and yolk, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add chocolate, mixing well.
Combine flour and next four ingredients; add flour mixture to chocolate mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for one hour and five minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan for fifteen minutes. Remove from pan and let cool on a wire rack. Pour Sweet Chocolate Glaze over top of cake. Makes one 10-inch pound cake.

Sweet Chocolate Glaze




1 4-ounce package sweet baking chocolate
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 egg white
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
1 to 2 tablespoons water


Combine chocolate and butter in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts. Cool.
Beat egg white (at room temperature) at high speed of electric mixer one minute or until soft peaks form. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating until stiff peaks form and sugar dissolves (2 to 4 minutes). Fold chocolate mixture into egg whites. Add water, stirring until smooth. Makes one cup.

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