Best Chocolate-Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This results in a dense, delicious cake with fine crumbs that don’t require anything else! The time spent allowing the chocolate to bloom or dissolve is worth it. The flavor of the chocolate is enhanced. It only intensifies the chocolate flavor; it doesn’t impart a mocha flavor.

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 55 minutes
Total Time: 1 Hour 10 minutes

Ingredients:

• 1 cup dark cocoa powder
  
• ½ cup of hot coffee
  
• ½ cup whole milk,
  
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
  
• 1 tsp salt
  
• ¼ tsp baking powder
  
• 3 cups white sugar
  
• 1 ½ cups butter, softened
  
• 1 package of cream cheese (8 ounces)
  
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
  
• 4 eggs
  
• 2 egg yolks,

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray cooking spray on a fluted tube pan to grease it.
   
2. In a bowl, combine cocoa powder and boiling coffee. To thin and cool the mixture, whisk in the milk; make sure the cocoa is dissolved.
   
3. In a bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking powder.
   
4. Using an electric mixer, combine sugar, butter, and cream cheese in a bowl until the mixture is white and frothy like frosting, about 5 minutes. include vanilla extract. One at a time, add eggs and egg yolks, mixing thoroughly after each addition. Add half of the flour mixture and stir to combine. Add the remaining flour mixture after stirring in the cocoa-milk mixture. Mix well. Fill the pan with the batter.
   
5. Bake in the preheated oven for 70 to 90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted a few times comes out dry.