Chocolate Poundcake with Bacon Bourbon Frosting.
Hmmmm. I apologize for doing this to you.
Because as I see this cake right now? On my screen? I want it immediately. It immediately needs to be in.my.face.
Again!
Sometimes I go on complete and utter bacon tangents in life and I’m currently in one. It feels SO good to just love food again – all food – so, so much. I think the last six recipes I’ve made contain bacon, Monday’s had bacon, today’s has bacon, next week – well, I’ll see what I can do for you vegetarians and stuff.
The good news is that if you don’t like bacon, want to eat this today but are observing lent, or just can’t get bacon + dessert in your brain, then you can maybe kinda sorta leave the bacon out. I mean who doesn’t want a chocolate cake with bourbon frosting?
The bad news is that… you might take the bacon out.
Heart breaker.
Truth: Eddie is making better bacon than me these days. And he’s making better eggs because he’s frying them in the grease after he makes the bacon.
Last night I made bacon cheeseburger skillet pizza. The recipe would be right here. Burn it into your brain. ALL THE BACON.
I’m on a rollll. And very annoying. I’ll stop.
This cake: it is pure love. The dark chocolate cake itself is to die for. Decadent but not overly sweet. Soft and fluffy and tender and moist. (No I can’t use any other word.) So seriously chocolate that you just can’t resist.
But.
While that is totally fabulous – and also totally something that can stand on it’s own – the frosting is what seals the darn deal. First, it’s CREAM CHEESE FROSTING. Ahhhhh. The most delectable of all the frostings. What I wouldn’t give to just swan dive into a bowl of that frosting and… nevermind.
The not-so-secretive secret is that it’s also whipped with bourbon and the crunchiest bacon in all the land. It’s like chocolate pound cake with bacon bourbon cheesecake icing?
Let’s go swim in this bacon icing river. Row row row your bacon.
Chocolate Poundcake with Bacon Bourbon Frosting
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup Dutch process cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened
- 2 3/4 cups sugar
- 5 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
bourbon bacon frosting
- 8 slices bacon, fried and crumbled
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 8 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons bourbon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease two 9×5 loaf pans with butter and sprinkle them with cocoa powder. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda and salt. In the bowl of your electric mixer (fitted with the paddle), add the butter and beat until creamy and smooth. Add in the sugar and beat on medium speed until fluffy, scraping down the sides when needed, about 3 to 4 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing for a minute or so and scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl after each. Beat in the vanilla extract.
- Add 1/2 of the dry ingredients and mix on low speed. Add the buttermilk and mix until combined. Add the remaining dry ingredients and beat on low, gradually increasing the speed to medium, beating until the batter is smooth, about 1 to 2 minutes. Divide the batter evenly between the two loaf pans. Bake for 65 to 75 minutes, or until cake is set in the middle. Let cool completely.
bourbon bacon frosting
- Add the butter and cream cheese to the bowl of your electric mixer and beat on medium speed until creamy and blended. With the mixer on low speed, gradually add the powdered sugar. Add in the bourbon and vanilla extract, then beat the frosting on medium to high speed until creamy, scraping down the sides when needed. Stir in half of the bacon with a spatula. Frost the cakes once cooled, then sprinkle the remaining bacon on top!
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78 Comments on “Chocolate Poundcake with Bacon Bourbon Frosting.”
This chocolate poundcake with bacon bourbon frosting are really amazing Jessica! The cake is absolutely fabulous, of course. But the way you describe it make it even more attractive to a food lover like me. Can’t wait to taste this sexy little baby!
These look incredible, really mouthwatering.
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Love! That’s my kind of boating! Thankyou!
I have made this cake/s three times for large family events and BBQs. It gets inhaled. There is never leftovers. The only thing I do add is buttered parchment to the bottom of the cake pans. It helps as twice I did have a problem with one of the cakes sticking despite a generous buttering of the pans.
Thanks for sharing, Jessica! Made the chocolate poundcake today and it was a great experience. I added a touch of espresso powder to deepen the flavor of chocolate and I really loved it. The key is to use first rate chocolate. As you’d know,there is a enormous difference between first rate and average.
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This looks amazing! Going to make this as my Birthday cake this year (Yes, I am a pastry chef so I make my own cake). I’m a bit nervous about the richness of the frosting… is the cream cheese a lot? Should I do a buttercream instead? Or just stick with the cream cheese?
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What do you recommend as cook time of I’m using round cake pans?
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This is such a fun and delicious looking cake! I love those chocolate around the base of the cake…perfection! And that cake stand is adorable!!!
This recipe is delicious. I followed the instructions exactly as written and it came out wonderfully. The edges were a little chewy, the crumb tender and light, the cream cheese frosting added the right amount of sweetness to a not overly sweet cake – will absolutely be making this again. Thank you for the wonderful recipe!
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If I wanted more bourbon flavor could I add some to the cake?
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