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Chocolate Chip Pound Cake with Chocolate Ganache Icing

Priyanka Gupta
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Box Yellow Cake Mix
  • 1 box of Instant Chocolate Pudding- 3 oz
  • 3/4 cup Oil
  • 3/4 cup Water
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup Sour Cream
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
  • 6 oz Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips about 1 cup

For the Ganache Icing

  • 3/4 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 6 oz Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
  • 6 oz Milk Chocolate Chips

Instructions
 

  • Grease and flour a Bundt cake pan and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • In a large bowl, add cake mix, sugar, pudding mix and stir till no lumps.
  • Add Oil, Eggs,Water and Sour Cream and mix till smooth.
  • Add Vanilla essence and Chocolate Chips.
  • Pour mixture in the prepared pan and bake for an hour or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted.
  • Let it cool for some time and invert onto a plate.
  • Enjoy as is or with the icing
  • Boil the cream in a heavy saucepan over medium heat.
  • Remove immediately and add both types of chocolate chips.
  • Whisk till chocolate melts and becomes smooth.
  • Let it cool slightly, about 30 minutes.
  • Icing should be lukewarm and smooth, pour over completely cooled cake.

Notes

Cut strips of parchment/wax paper on serving platter, put cake on it. Ice your cake. Now gently pull the parchment paper from underneath the cake. The parchment/wax paper catches all the drips and you have a clean serving platter!
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