Description
A go-to dessert recipe for elegant or casual dinner parties. Easy chocolate bundt cake recipe, is a crowd pleaser. Packs well for potluck dinners too!
Ingredients
- 2 cups Cake Flour-whisked and spooned in measuring cup (you could sub all-purpose flour, but the crumb will suffer)
- ¾ cup of Cocoa Powder (plus 2 tablespoons for dusting pan)
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 2 sticks (1 cup) organic Unsalted Butter, softened to room temperature plus 1 tablespoon to grease pan
- 1 cup of Buttermilk, shaken
- 3/4 cup of Friends Drift Inn Strawberry Moonshine Jam
- 2 large Eggs, organic preferred
- 1 teaspoon Kentucky Bourbon (could substitute vanilla extract or orange extract)
- Optional – Powdered sugar, icing, warmed strawberry jam for topping
Instructions
- Preheat over to 350.
- Grease a 12 cup Bundt pan with 1 tablespoon of softened butter.
- Use about 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder to “dust” the pan, coating thoroughly. Shake to remove excess.
- In large mixing bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Whisk thoroughly. Set aside.
- Place remaining butter and sugar in steel mixing bowl and use mixer to beat together at medium speed. Gradually add buttermilk, strawberry jam, eggs and bourbon to avoid splatters.
- Slowly mix in remaining dry ingredients until batter is well combined.
- Pour batter into prepared bundt pan, turning the pan as you pour. Once filled, lift pan about 3 inches off table and drop on the table to help level the batter.
- Bake 50-60 minutes, rotating pan half way through. Cake will pull away from sides. Insert a wooden pick to insure doneness; it should come out clean.
- Let the cake rest in pan about 10 minutes. Invert pan onto plate and let cool.
- Garnish with warmed jam, powdered sugar or a confectionary icing. The choice is yours.
Notes
If you are going to all the trouble to make a showstopping strawberry jam chocolate pound cake, do use cocoa instead of flour to dust your pan. It makes all the difference in presentation.
Sometimes I take about ¼ cup of warmed Friends Drift Inn Strawberry Jam and brush over chocolate pound cake just after I flip it from the pan. Sometimes I don’t. Giggles
If I freeze this cake, it is with the intent to use it in a trifle. The crumb is so tender, I think it loses mouth feel as a stand-alone dessert after being frozen.
This recipe was formulated using Friends Drift Inn Strawberry Moonshine Jam. We cannot predict how other jams will perform.
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