"Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Icing"

By RoketJSquerl

Ingredients

• 3 sticks butter (1 1/2 cups)
• 1 8-ounce package cream cheese
• 3 cups sugar
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 6 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• Chocolate Fudge Frosting

Details

Servings 12
Preparation time 15mins
Cooking time 105mins
Adapted from addapinch.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Prepare bundt or tube pan and set aside.

Let butter, cream cheese, and eggs come to room temperature.

Cream together butter, cream cheese and sugar til fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Add flour, cocoa powder, salt and vanilla.

Mix until just well-combined but do not over mix.

Pour into prepared bundt or tube pan.

Bake until golden brown and skewer inserted into middle of cake comes out clean, about 1 and half hours.

For the Chocolate Fudge Frosting:

2 cups granulated sugar
3 heaping tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
⅔ cup whole milk
½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, cut into cubes
1½ teaspoons vanilla

Instructions

Mix sugar, cocoa powder, and milk together in a large saucepan.
Cook over medium-high heat until large bubbles form. Boil one minute. Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla.
Return to medium-high heat and boil until thickens. Remove from heat and beat with a wooden spoon until thick and smooth.