This chocolate cake recipe has its roots in my Classic Old Fashioned Pound Cake recipe. It’s a very moist cake with a delicious moist crumb, and minimal ingredients need to be swapped out to create that rich chocolate flavor.
The chocolate ganache is also a very easy, very great recipe using a few simple ingredients. Some heavy cream, chocolate chips, salt and a few minutes of heating and stirring.
Grease and flour a bundt pan. Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until well incorporated. In a separate large bowl, add the dry ingredients of flour, baking powder and salt and sift together.
Beat in flour mixture and half and half. Gently stir in 1 cup chocolate chips. Pour cake batter into bundt pan. Place pan in cold oven and set to 350 degrees. Bake for 60 minutes. Remove cake from oven and cool in the pan for 15 minutes.
Heat heavy cream and salt in a sauce pan until it comes to a simmer. Turn off heat. Stir in chocolate chips, cover and let sit for about 5 minutes. Stir until cream and chocolate are well mixed. Drizzle over cake.