Lowney’s – Chocolate Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (227g)
• 1 cup sugar (approx. 200g)
• 5 egg yolks
• 5 egg whites
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ cup Lowney’s Premium Chocolate, grated (25g)
• 2 cups flour (approx. 240g)
• ¼ cup brandy (60ml)
• 1 cup citron cut in small pieces (approx. 200g candied fruit)

Method

1. Cream butter; add sugar gradually, yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored, flour, citron, salt.
2. Beat well; cut and fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff.
3. Pour into buttered pans and bake one hour in a moderate oven.
4. This cake may be baked in a buttered dripping pan and when cold cut into fancy shapes and iced.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard