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.”
I’ve been wanting to try my hand at a chocolate poundcake for awhile but didn’t know where to start and hadn’t even started researching. Thanks for doing all the legwork for me :) The texture looks so amazing and the frosting, can’t beat cream cheese!
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You are totally going to judge me for this, but I JUST cooked bacon for my FIRST time this week.
I don’t know who I thought I was my whole life. Some weird person who didn’t like it?
And now I am going to be a person that eats it in cake. LUHVE. Pinned!
I bake my bacon in the oven, on a baking sheet lined with tinfoil. It gets so crispy and it’s so much less of a mess. It usually stays flat too!
You can never have too many Chocolate cakes in the house! I have one in the oven but I am sure there is enough room for this loaf. Bacon Sprinkle?? Jessica I love you and your kitchen.
OMG, this cake… !!! that’s all I have to say
Next time try a peanut butter frosting and candy the bacon by oven roasting it (so much easier than frying it) with brown sugar and a bit of chipotle powder sprinkled on it. I made chocolate brownies with peanut butter icing and sprinkled them with candied bacon bits for this year’s Super Bowl party………….And the crowd goes wild!!!
Wow! This looks so delicious!
Yeah, it looks alright. But my bowl of Heinz tomato soup remains just as appetizing as it was five minutes ago.
…..
(Why would you do this to me??!!)
ugh. now you’re just TRYING to give me a heart attack. Frankie will HAVE to propose after I make this for him… right? btw. we’re no longer seattle-new York long distance! I moved to NY -> sigh. true love. (aka – true love without a ring)
LOL @ row, row, row your bacon. That’s my kind of boating!
I am pinning this cake recipe, because it looks so absolutely delicious, but I can’t find the bourbon in the recipe. I’m assuming you just add some bourbon to the cream cheese frosting while you’re mixing it? But I was wondering how much you added.
i’m losing my mind! i forgot to include the frosting instructions. they are there now – thank you!
Geez – I really hate to be this person, but Lent should be capitalized. It’s a religious observance and should be respected as such.
I don’t think you hate being a pedant at all.
Row, row, row the bacon
Gently down the grill
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Baking is a thrill.
This cake looks fantastic, and never apologise for bacon.
I am so sorry for double posting, my browser crashed mid comment I didn’t think it’d submitted. Apologies.
Row, row, row your bacon
Gently down the grill
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Baking is a thrill.
Please never apologise for this again, it looks SO GOOD!
This cake looks delicious! I may have to be a heart-breaker and leave the bacon out (can you ever forgive me??) but I need this cake, too!
I loooooooove super crispy bacon. Drooling right now…
So this cake is perfection, right? There’s nothing better? Okay, good. Just checking :) Looks incredible!
there are just so many things I love about this. the bacon, bourbon, chocolate. it’s all pretty much perfection.
This looks amazing! Do you think it would work to make this as cupcakes instead of a loaf?
i don’t know how these would be as cupcakes since the poundcake is sort of… denser? than cupcakes? but! i have a (super old) recipes for something similar – just use the frosting on this recipe. http://www.howsweeteats.com/2011/02/dark-chocolate-cupcakes-with-white-chocolate-ganache-and-candied-bacon/
I don’t even need the frosting, just the slice of that super dark cake is all I want right now. Damn you chia pudding currently sitting on my desk. I do not want you at all anymore.
ohhhh god woman, this is daaarrrn good!!
I completely and must have a chocolate loaf cake NOW! Yes your pictures always make me want to shove it in my face!! Ah, for being trapped at work for a few more hours.
Oh my goodness this looks awesome, but I do have a confession to make: my coworker made chocolate bacon cupcakes for my birthday…and I didn’t love the bacon part. The cupcakes were so perfectly textured and delicious, but the bacon was this weird texture/flavor that just intruded into the heavenlyness that was the cupcake. I am ashamed.
That being said, chocolate poundcake with straight up bourbon cream cheese frosting? Sign me up…
Oh my gosh…I just finished eating an entire plate full of desserts at a potluck lunch and am super full, but now that I’ve seen this it’s like I haven’t had dessert in weeks! I want to go home and make these little babies right this very instant!
OMG OMG OMG.
This cake. I can’t even.
LOVE!!
Oh my gosh, I need this now! Sweet and salty is totally my thing right now!
ugh. can’t handle not having this in my life. pretty sure I need it now!!
Am making this now for my House of Cards party. Frank Underwood, southern fella that he is, would love this bourbon cake.
YES!!! keep me posted on results. :)
I’ve never had chocolate poundcake, but yours looks absolutely delicious! The bacon probably adds a great salty crunch too!
I need this cake in my life. like now!
I can’t even deal. Insanely dramatic! By the way, apology accepted. :)
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I love your love for food/bacon!! And I love this recipe…..maybe just for the bacon ;)
Jillian
Be still my heart. So fudgy and beautiful, I can’t wait to make my own!
Row row row you bacon! Love!
O.M.G. I’m not sure there are words to describe this. Must make this tonight!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
SOOOO YUMMY!
Thanks for sharing!
Nastyadrama.ru
You’ll never convince me to add meat to a cake but I’m glad you found it works for you. I do like the recipe otherwise (sans bacon). Thanks!!
That chocolate cake looks so moist….and so Chocolatey. And that bourbon cream cheese frosting…could it get any better?
Omg!!! Bourbon and bacon frosting?! This cannot be wrong :D
Lovely. Another inspiration for a sweet-salty recipe. Sweet and salty is totally my thing. I am addicted. Have you tried to combine licorice and chocolate? It’s a great merger.
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What an amazing cake recipe! I’m very curious about the feeling in mouth while eating it (I’m of French origin and we don’t use to imagine such fancy combos…).
I’ve never heard about pound cake before reading you and it will be soon in my kitchen per sure. I hope mine will look as nice and yummy as yours!
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All I can say is yum yum and yum !!!
I think I want to smooch this cake! It is incredibly dreamy looking and I bet it tastes amazing!
OMG! I definitely want to dive into that frosting. The cake looks so perfectly rich!
I just baked this tonight and it is delicious! (as expected)
For anyone who is wondering, this made one full size loaf and 3 mini loaf pans. (some for now, some for the freezer) And I didn’t have any dutch process cocoa, so I just used a mix of dark cocoa powder and regular cocoa powder, and it still turned out great!
BACON bourbon frosting? Girl, that is such a game changer. I am SO excited to make this!