Best Lucilles Chocolate Intrigue Cake Recipes

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MOM'S CHOCOLATE INTRIGUE CAKE



Mom's Chocolate Intrigue Cake image

My kids and all my nieces and nephews are crazy about this cake. It's a pound cake with a chocolate circle in the middle of each slice.

Provided by puppitypup

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h20m

Yield 1 cake, 12-16 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 15

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
3/4 cup chocolate syrup
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup cocoa
1 cup hot water
1 dash salt
2 teaspoons vanilla

Steps:

  • I think you could use store-bought chocolate syrup in this recipe, but the syrup made in the original recipe is not as thick, so store-bought might change the outcome of the cake.
  • Place the ingredients for the chocolate syrup in a saucepan on the stove and cook over medium high until it reaches a syrupy consistency. Pour into a chilled bowl and place in fridge to cool quickly.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a tube pan with removable bottom. Mine has a fairly large center hole of about 4 inches.
  • Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each.
  • Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Pour milk into the measuring cup and add vanilla.
  • Add the dry ingredients and the milk to the cake a little at a time, alternating between the two.
  • Stir the baking soda into the chocolate syrup.
  • Pour 2/3 of the batter into the prepared tube pan, smoothing out the top.
  • Mix the syrup into the remaining batter and spread this batter on top of the other batter, again smoothing the top.
  • Bake for 45 minutes. Then place aluminum foil over the pan and bake an additional 20-25 more minutes or until done.
  • We usually serve this cake without frosting, but for birthdays, I would add my Italian Chocolate Frosting.
  • When sliced, the chocolate should have moved down to form a circle in the middle of the cake that the kids say looks like a person's head and shoulders. They get a kick out of the slightly different shape each time the cake is baked.

CHOCOLATE INTRIGUE MARBLE CAKE



Chocolate Intrigue Marble Cake image

This is a great 2 tone cake in which the syrupy chocolate batter "does its own thing" to the white batter. It is extremely moist and very pretty when sliced.

Provided by Karen..

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h25m

Yield 16 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
3/4 cup chocolate syrup
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 (15 ounce) can of prepared dark chocolate frosting (or your favorite chocolate frosting recipe)

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Combine flour, powder and salt and set aside.
  • Cream butter, gradually adding sugar, until light and fluffy.
  • Blend in one egg at a time, beating well after each addition.
  • Combine milk and vanilla and add alternately with dry ingredients, ending with dry ingredients.
  • Blend well after each addition.
  • Turn two thirds of the batter into well greased and floured tube pan.
  • Add to remaining batter the chocolate syrup and baking soda and mix well.
  • Spoon chocolate batter over white batter.
  • DO NOT MIX!
  • Bake for 65 minutes or until cake tests done.
  • Cool for about 15 minutes on rack and remove from pan.
  • Cool completely and then frost.

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