German Chocolate Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (4 ounce) package sweet baking chocolate
1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
1 3/4 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 egg yolk
2 3/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the glaze
1 (4 ounce) package sweet baking chocolate
1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine
1 egg white
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
1 -2 tablespoon water

Preparation

Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Line bottom of pan with waxed 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\u00b0F for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until a wooden toothpick 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, if using.
For the glaze:
Combine chocolate and butter in top of a double boiler; bring water to a boil. Reduce heat to low; cook until chocolate melts. Cool.
Beat egg white (at room temperature) at high speed of an electric mixer 1 minmute or until stiff peaks form. Gradually add powdered sugar, beating until stiff peaks form and sugar dissolves,(2 to 4 minutes).
Fold chocolate mixture into egg whites. Add water, stirring until smooth.