For the next year I am doing a project - a different cake each week for an entire year - following the book All Cakes Considered: A Year's Worth of Weekly Recipes Tested, Tasted and Approved by the Staff of NPR's All Things Considered. You can read about the start of my project here and look at each week to date here.

The recipe: Chocolate Pound Cake


In Jim's words "finally a chocolate one". And not just a chocolate one, a really good chocolate one.

I decided to try using the fancy (well, fancier than the plain tube pan I've been using) stoneware bundt pan I've had for years and rarely use. Unfortunately, I neglected to measure the bundt pan before hand to make sure it was big enough.

Or maybe I should say fortunately since someone had to eat the scraps of warm cake that I had to cut off the top of the pan so I could turn it over and un-mold it to cool. This cake is amazing. The perfect amount of chocolate-ness and just the right texture.

Recipients: I made this one the day before me and the kids headed up to the lake for a week so half came with us and half stayed home with Jim.

Verdict: Delicious and easy. Definitely a keeper.

Up next: Mary Carole Battle's Mother's Wacky Cake with Seven-Minute Frosting