Double Chocolate Bundt Cake-GF

This recipe is one that I modified from Martha Stewart.  It uses Pamela's Baking Mix as the GF source.  I like Pamela's much better than Bob's GF flour for cakes and pie crusts because Bob's flour has a distinctive flavor while Pamela's does not (for me, at least).

You'll need a 12 cup Bundt cake pan.  Grease it liberally and dust it with unsweetened cocoa powder (instead of flour so your dark cake doesn't turn white).

This recipe calls for 1 cup of sour cream; I use buttermilk powder (Bob's Red Mill), add it to the dry ingredients and then use water, adding it to the wet, instead.  The choice is yours: sour cream, buttermilk or buttermilk powder...it makes no appreciable difference.  

Preheat your oven to 325 F.

Ingredients:
1 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder mixed with 1 cup of boiling water, cooled to room temperature

3 sticks room temperature unsalted organic butter
2 1/4 cups sugar (coconut palm sugar is my choice)
1 Tbsp. organic vanilla extract (GF)
6 large eggs, room temperature
1 cup sour cream OR  3/4 cup of room temperature water OR 3/4 cup buttermilk, room temperature

3 cups GF flour plus    1/4 cup of buttermilk powder
3/4 tsp. pink salt
1 tsp. baking soda
Mix the dry ingredients together in a small bowl and set aside.

1 1/4 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips (I use 60%)

Directions:

Place the butter in an electric mixer bowl, cream with the sugar at medium speed until incorporated.  Add the vanilla and the six eggs, one at a time.  Turn down the mixer speed to low and add the sour cream/water/buttermilk. Alternately with the flour mixture add the cooled cocoa mixture until all the liquid is incorporated.

Then, by hand, mix in the chocolate chips.  Spoon this mixture, carefully, into the bundt pan.

Bake for 1 to 1 1/4 hours, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.  Cool in pan for 15 minutes before turning out onto a cooling rack and cool, completely.

Serve as is or drizzled with dark chocolate genache or even powdered sugar...your choice.

Dr. Esther
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