German Chocolate Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 (4 oz.) pkg. sweet baking chocolate
    1 c. butter or margarine, softened
    1 3/4 c. sugar
    3 eggs
    1 egg yolk
    2 3/4 c. all-purpose flour
    1/2 tsp. baking soda
    1 tsp. salt
    3/4 tsp. cream of tartar
    1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
    3/4 c. milk
    1 tsp. vanilla
Preparation
    Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
    Line bottom of pan with wax paper.
    Set aside.
    Place chocolate in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil.
    Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts.
    Let cool.
    Cream butter; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer.
    Add eggs and yolk, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
    Add chocolate, mixing well.
    Combine flour and next 4 ingredients; add flour mixture to chocolate mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
    Mix after each addition.
    Stir in vanilla.
    Pour batter into pan.
    Bake at 350\u00b0 for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
    Cool in pan 15 minutes; remove from pan and let cool on a wire rack.
    Pour Sweet Chocolate Glaze over top of cake.

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