Chocolate-sour cream pound cake from Sweet Enough (page 133) by Alison Roman

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Accompaniments: Hard-roasted pears

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    Can substitute whole-milk yogurt for sour cream, and granulated sugar for Demerara sugar.

  • MollyPellecchia on May 21, 2026

    Baked in a slightly larger (9x5) pan, an hour & 8 min. but not sure it helped much. My top edges curled over & the cake looked quite fragile when cut. In fact, difficult to slice without falling apart. But, it tasted amazing.

  • Apollonia on May 27, 2024

    Like Jviney, my cake was hugely cratered, and despite being very done and dry on the top and sides (and seemingly done with a poke test or two), a bit underbaked (or possibly too densely chipped?) in the center. No one cared, though, as the cake still tasted great. I do think next time I'd put in a larger 9*5 rather than 9*4 pan to help with the baking; as others have noted, this fills right to the top.

  • Jviney on April 11, 2024

    Rave reviews from cookbook club and my kids. It did have a delicious, rich dark chocolate satisfaction to it. Mine seemed to bake oddly; the top was cracked at 65 minutes and it sounded baked, but then cratered spectacularly in the middle. That part was fudgy when we ate it and the edges seemed extra dry. Nonetheless, no one cared.

  • fprincess on April 09, 2024

    I was in the mood of something very chocolate-y the other day. I made the chocolate-sour cream pound cake and it delivered. I had tried other chocolate pound cake recipes in the past, and that one was a notch above with its intense chocolate flavor. I included the optional chocolate chunks and it was quite a large cake, pretty much filling my loaf pan to the top! I would absolutely make this again. https://forums.egullet.org/topic/157248-cooking-from-dining-in-by-alison-roman/?do=findComment&comment=2421123

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