Coconut-Dark Chocolate Pound Cake

Dark chocolate chips wrapped within moist kokosnoot pound cake, topped amongst nighttime chocolate ganache together with shredded kokosnoot this Coconut-Dark Chocolate Pound Cake is a chocolate & kokosnoot lover's dream.

Happy back-to-school, everyone!  Tomorrow is the commencement 24-hour interval of schoolhouse amongst the students for me!  And I'm nervous.  I'm ever nervous for the commencement 24-hour interval of school.  See, it's non only the kids who larn nervous.  Some of us teachers do, too!

Know what calms my nerves?  Chocolate.  Of course of report it does.  I am a chocoholic, later all.  Oh, together with hilarious back-to-school videos similar this 1 ...
Have you lot seen this "Baby Got Class" back-to-school parody yet?  I mean, it's totally hilarious.  I laughed my sides off the commencement fourth dimension I saw it.

So later I watched this video virtually x times, I decided to calm the residual of my nerves amongst my onetime friend chocolate.

Dark chocolate, to live on exact.  Mixed amongst coconut.  And wrapped upwards inwards kokosnoot pound cake.

Yes, that ought to arrive at the trick.  Don't you lot think?

For an extra nighttime chocolate punch, I used Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips in this cake together with inwards the chocolate ganache glaze.

Not exclusively are the Ghirardelli chips bittersweet for a stronger nighttime chocolate taste, they're also a flake bigger than regular chocolate chips ...

... together with arrive at a cool poke-a-dot expect inwards the baked cake.

See?  Aren't the chocolate chip poke-a-dots cute?

I'm certain you lot could utilisation regular semi-sweet chocolate chips only fine if you lot don't experience similar going bittersweet.  Or poke-a-dotty.

When it came to whipping upwards a chocolate ganache glaze for this scrumptious cake ... which I only knew it had to pick out ... , I turned to 1 of my absolute favorite cookbooks for aid ... The Cook's Illustrated Baking Book ...

Cook's Illustrated never lets me down!  I swear past times their recipes together with methods ... whenever I'm inwards incertitude of how to best arrive at something inwards the kitchen, I plough to them.

And permit me say ya, their chocolate glaze did non disappoint.

Sprinkled amongst a impact of shredded coconut, it was only what I was looking forrard to overstep off this coconutty pound cake creation.

Just perfect for calming commencement 24-hour interval of schoolhouse nerves.

So, teachers, students, together with back upwards staff ... those who start dorsum this week, weeks ago, or nonetheless to come upwards inwards the coming weeks ... I wishing you lot a real happy dorsum to school!  And I wishing I could transportation each together with every 1 of you lot a slice of cake ... whether you're nervous or not.

 

Coconut-Dark Chocolate Pound Cake

Source:  A Tracey original; chocolate glaze recipe from The Cook's Illustrated Baking Book: Baking Demystified
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients
Pound Cake:

• 3 c. granulated sugar
• 1/2 lb. (2 sticks) butter, softened
• 2 T. Crisco shortening
• 6 eggs
• 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
• 1 tsp. coconut extract
• 3 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 c. milk
• 1 c. shredded coconut
• 3/4 c. (6 oz.) Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate chips

Chocolate Glaze Topping:

• 1/2 c. heavy cream
• 2 T. corn syrup
• 1/2 c. (4 oz.) Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate chips
• 1/4 to 1/2 c. shredded coconut

Directions

1. FOR THE POUND CAKE: Cream the sugar, butter, together with Crisco amongst an electrical mixer, virtually 3-4 minutes. Add vanilla extract, kokosnoot extract, together with eggs, beating for a few seconds later the add-on of each egg. Beat at medium speed amongst an electrical mixer virtually 10-15 minutes. Be certain to crunch for the total time.
2. Combine flour together with baking powder. With the mixer on low, add together flour mixture together with milk, alternately, to the creamed carbohydrate together with eggs mixture. Mix later each add-on until only combined. Gently stir inwards shredded kokosnoot together with bittersweet chocolate chips.
3. Pour batter into a subway scheme pan that has been generously sprayed amongst non-stick baking spray amongst flour {or buttered & floured}. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until a toothpick inserted inwards the overstep comes out clean. Cool virtually a 1/2 an lx minutes inwards the pan; take cake from pan past times inverting pan onto a cooling rack. Cool completely.
4. FOR THE CHOCOLATE GLAZE: Place heavy cream together with corn syrup inwards a modest saucepan; convey to a simmer over medium heat. Remove from heat. Add chocolate, cover, together with permit sit down for v minutes. Whisk gently until chocolate is melted together with glaze is smooth.
5. Drizzle over cooled cake. Sprinkle amongst additional 1/4 to 1/2 loving cup shredded coconut.

Enjoy!

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