Best Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This chocolate cream cheese pound cake is the best! It's a rich, moist dessert with a deep chocolaty flavor that's enhanced by the addition of coffee.

• Preparation Time: 25 mins
• Cooking Time: 1 hr 10 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins
• Calories: 542 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 3 cups white sugar
• cooking spray
• 4 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
• 2 large egg yolks, at room temperature
• 1.5 cups butter, softened
• 0.25 teaspoon baking powder
• 0.5 cup hot coffee
• 0.5 cup whole milk, warmed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Stir flour, salt, and baking powder together in a bowl.

Step 2

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into a few places comes out dry, 70 to 90 minutes.

Step 3

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt) with cooking spray.

Step 4

Mix cocoa powder and hot coffee together in a bowl until cocoa is fully dissolved. Whisk in milk to thin and cool mixture.

Step 5

Cream sugar, butter, and cream cheese in a bowl with an electric mixer until white and fluffy (like frosting), about 5 minutes. Mix in vanilla. Add eggs and egg yolks, one at a time, mixing completely after each addition. Mix in 1/2 of the flour mixture until incorporated. Stir in cocoa-milk mixture, then mix in remaining flour mixture until well blended. Pour batter into the prepared pan.