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Chocolate Cranberry Pound Cake

An easy recipe for Chocolate cranberry pound cake.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 55 minutes
Total Time 2 hours
Course Dessert
Servings 8 people

Ingredients
  

  • 160 g flour
  • 70 g cocoa powder
  • 1 ½ tsp baking powder
  • 90 g sour cream
  • 230 g butter room temp
  • 4 eggs room temp
  • 210 g regular white sugar
  • 1 tsp caramel syrup
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • a handful of dried cranberries
  • 2 tbsps cranberry jam
  • 150 ml whipped cream
  • fresh cranberries on top

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 160°C and prepare a pound cake form and a baking paper.
  • In a bowl, mix butter and regular white sugar on high speed for 4 minutes until fluffy. Add eggs and whip again until creamy.
  • Add cranberry jam, and caramel syrup and whip on medium speed for one minute. Pour sour cream into the bowl and mix well.
  • In another bowl whisk flour, cocoa powder and baking powder. Add slowly in small batches while mixing on medium-low speed. Mix until everything is well combined. In the end add dried cranberries.
  • Pour the mixture into the pound cake form and bake for 50-55 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean. Take the pound cake out of the oven and let cool completely.
  • Whip the whipping cream on high speed - do not over-mix! Brush the pound cake with cranberry jam and put whipped cream on cool chocolate cranberry pound cake and put a few fresh cranberries on top. Keep in fridge!
Keyword chocolate, chocolate cake, pound cake