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For either baking novices or seasoned pros, a dump cake is a simple choice. To prepare one, you simply dump the ingredients into a bowl and beat them, then tip the batter into a pan and bake it. Although a dump cake is straightforward to make, it's just as good as a moresumptuous cake. Maybe that's the reason why dump cakes, including pound cakes, have been popular for hundreds of years.
The secret to the cake is in properly thrashing the ingredients, so try these pointers. Let the butter soften and take the eggs out of the fridge to warm a bit. For an airy batter, beat the fell butter and sugar well until the creamed mix looks pale and wispy. Beat in the eggs and vanilla until all of the streaks are gone. Any thickening you may see will vanish as you beat. Turn off the mixer infrequently and scuff the batter at the sides of the bowl into the path of the beaters so all gets completely mixed.
Shift to low speed when you add the dry ingredients to keep the flour mixture from flying into the air. Since overbeating the flour can harden a cake, beat only until the batter has no streaks. Mix in the chips by hand so the mixer does not break them.
Be sure the cake is completely done before you take it out of the cooker. You can use either a cake tester, a fine metal wire with a knob on top, or a woody pick. Carefully push the tester into the middle of the cake and pull it out. If you see liquid batter on the tester, keep baking. If the tester comes out clean, take away the cake from the stove and permit it to cool. A silky-textured pound cake is rich and damp all by itself, so you don't need to frost it. Just cut and enjoy!
Double Chocolate Pound Cake
1 loaf cake or 8 servings
Butter
Flour
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup unsweetened baking
cocoa
1/2 small spoon salt
1 cup butter, fell
(2 sticks)
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 small spoons vanilla
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
With butter, lightly grease bottom and sides of 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 or 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan. Cover with flour. Shake out excess flour. Put aside. With a sifter or mesh strainer, sift 1 1/4 cups flour together with the cocoa and salt into bowl or onto sheet of waxed paper. Set aside.
In large mixer bowl at medium pace, beat together butter and sugar till light and fluffy, about 3 to 5 minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla till thoroughly mixed, at least several minutes. At low speed, continuously beat in reserved flour blend, 1/2 cup at a time, beating just until mixed and no ridges remain. Whisk in chips. Spread batter evenly in prepared pan.
Bake in preheated 325 degree Fahrenheit oven till cake starts to push away from sides of pan and cake tester inserted near center comes out spic and span, about 60 to 70 minutes for 9-inch pan or 75 to 85 minutes for 8 1/2-inch pan. (If tester shows dark brown, you have hit a melted chocolate chip. Assess again in another spot. To stop overbaking, remove cake from oven as quickly as no light brown batter shows on tester.) Cool on wire rack 10 minutes. With narrow spatula or knife, unloose cake from pan. Softly dither onto wire rack. Chill completely. To keep dankness, store cooled cake in plastic wrap. Serve plain or topped with fruit, ice cream or whipped cream, if needed.
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Cynthia Phillips is an Italian bistro owner who loves to share her recipes. She usually commends her proponents to have their own Pasta Maker and Bread Slicer.
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