It’s the week after Christmas, the day before New Year’s Eve and I’ve decided to make chocolate pound cake.
Doesn’t everyone do that?
My house is a mess, my laundry isn’t done and my pants are giving me an added extra hug that I just don’t seem to remember feeling a mere two weeks ago.
Sooooo, I’ve decided that cake, a chocolate POUND cake mind you, would be the perfect solution to my dilemma.
I figure…extra pounds on me + pound cake + a dash of denial = BLISS.
Makes sense doesn’t it? Well to me it does. And this isn’t any ol’ pound cake either. Nope. It’s a Tate’s Bake Shop chocolate pound cake. You see I recently received a lovely cookbook and a trio of cookies to review from Tate’s Bake Shop, a fabulous little bakery located in Southampton run by Kathleen King. Ina Garten wrote the forward in this delicious cookbook and many have praised the incredible cookies including Rachel Ray and the New York Times. As I excitedly opened the package I did what any other food blogger would do, I immediately sampled the cookies, hid them from my family and anxiously began reading the cookbook from stem to stern.
Just kidding, I graciously shared the infamous cookies with my family and then hid them…
Well... wait until you try them and you’ll see why! They are the perfect combination of buttery, sweet… but not too sweet, crispy on the edges, soft in the middle, I’ll-just-have-ONE-more-nobody-will-notice-except-my-jeans kinda cookies.
Which brings me back to the decadent pound cake…
and my jeans that give me an unwanted hug…
and the fact that I’ll be living at the gym in 2011…
and my family that feels loved because I made them a Chocolate pound cake to make up for the cookies that I coveted in my pantry.
O.k. enough about me.
Now it’s time for YOU! You get the chance to win a delicious trio of your very own oatmeal raisin, white chocolate macadamia nut, and chocolate chip cookies (that you may or may not hide from your family).
AND your very own copy of the Tate’s Bake Shop cookbook to drool over.
You get 2 chances to win!
- Leave a comment on this post letting me know what you favorite dessert is!
- For an additional entry, head over to the Tate’s Bake Shop Facebook Page and become a fan. Once you’ve done that, then come back to this post and leave a comment letting me know that you are a Tate’s Bake Shop fan.
This giveaway will end next Thursday, January 6 at midnight EST at which time one lucky winner will be randomly chosen and notified. Contest is open to US residents only (sorry to my Canadian friends) Tate’s will ship directly to you.
If you act fast there’s still time for Tate’s 15% discount to anyone to uses the code “cookie” when checking out until December 31st!
Here’s one more taste of the delicious chocolate pound cake!
Good Luck & wishing you all the BEST in 2011!
Wenderly
************** WINNER ***************
We have a winner folks! Thanks so very much to all who joined in the fun!!
So now it’s the time that we’ve all been waiting for…
Who will get to indulge (or perhaps hide) a trio of scrumptious cookies and a enjoy a lovely cookbook from Tate’s Bake Shop?
The lucky winner is…
Stacy! Who said,
“Plain and simple…Chocolate Chip Cookies are my favorite!!”
Congratulations Stacy! I’ll be contacting you about the details!
And thanks again to the great folks at Tate’s Bake Shop for sponsoring this fun giveaway!
Here’s the recipe for you to enjoy!
Chocolate Pound Cake
Tate’s Bake Shop Cookbook
1 cup Dutch-processed coco powder
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup salted butter, softened room temperature
2 cups Sugar
4 large eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup sour cream
3 tbsp water
Preheat over to 325º F. Grease a 10″ Bundt pan.
Sift the cocoa powder, flour, salt and baking powder into a small bowl and set aside.
Put the butter and sugar in a bowl. With and electric mixer beat them until they are light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each. Add the vanilla. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Mix the sour cream and water.
Add the dry ingredients alternately with half of the sour cream mixture in three stages, beginning and ending with the flour mixer and scraping down the sides of the bowl between stages.
Spread the batter into the prepared Bundt pan.
Bake it for 1hr. Remove it from the oven and let it cool in the pan. Turn it out into a wire rack to cool completely.
Optional: I added a drizzle of chocolate glaze just for a little pizazz.
Chocolate Glaze
3 tbsp butter
3 tbsp light corn syrup
1 tbsp water
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Combine butter, corn syrup and water into small sauce pan bringing to boil over medium heat. Remove from heat then mix in chips until shiny and smooth. Cool slightly then drizzle over cake
I think my favorite dessert is ice cream. Or cake. Or chocolate. Ugh!! I have no idea. 🙂
My favorite dessert is my grandpa’s chocolate mayonnaise cake. It’s not far off from this recipe, actually. Yum!
I already like Tate’s bake shop on FB 🙂
I LOVE tiramisu. I think I can confidently say it’s my favorite dessert.
I ‘like’ Tate’s on FB.
How on earth am I suppose to lose weight if everyone keeps posting delicious sweets?! It looks totally amazing btw. My favorite dessert is absolutely apple pie. I hoard it to myself it’s so good.
already like tate’s on fb
Black Bottom Cupcakes. Chocolate, cream cheese – how can you go wrong?
I’m a fan of Tate’s!
I LOVE chocolate pound cake. My grandmother always made it for my sister’s birthday. Yum! Yum!
Favorite dessert? Creme brulee. But I never turn down a scoop of vanilla ice cream, either….
I love anything with choclate and peppermint!
I am a fan of Tate’s on FB.
Yum! My favorite dessert is any sort of bar — right now lime bars!
Tate’s ARE good cookies! my favorite dessert? A warm chocolate chip cookie!
I love Vanilla ice cream, Chocolate Cake, Sweet Potato Pie and Oatmeal Cookies. Well if it’s dessert I like it. I have to remember everything in moderation and exercise.
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I love most anything with chocolate but I love love bread pudding with a caramel chocolate glaze.
Anything Chocolate! I have a Texas Sheet Cake baking right now!
I make a mean Pineapple Upside Down Cake; I can’t make it too often. 1. The kids don’t like pineapple 2. I end up eating their portions.
I’m a proud FB fan of Tate’s….
My favorite dessert usually depends on the time of year, but chocolate cake wins all the time!
I am a huge cheesecake lover but I am now totally jonesing for some chocolate pound cake!
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I love cookies………..
my dessert is anything chocolate, so thank you for this recipe! I am excited to try it 🙂
I “Liked” them on FB- and my previous comment was supposed to say my *favorite* dessert. Although sometimes I consider chocolate my dessert 🙂
I dream about chocolatey, gooey desserts….
I have this cookbook too, but have yet to crack it open. Your post reminded me I need to take a gander at it this weekend. Your cake look divine! My favorite dessert is definitely cheesecake! 🙂
I love chocolate bark! I’ve just started making it at home–delicious and fun!
I’m a fan of Tate’s on facebook now!
I have to admit, I’ve got a thing for flan.
now a tate’s fan!
my fav dessert is red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting!!!
im a fan of tate on facebook!
My favorite dessert is ice cream followed by any type of cheese cake!
Glad to see I’m not the only one having a SERIOUS chocolate craving, less than a week after the great holiday binge of 2010. I’m not sure there’s any better dessert than chocolate pound cake!
I dont think I have a favorite I like all desserts.
i love cheesecake
Red Velvet cake.
I am a fan of Tates on Facebook.
Yummy giveaway !!! My favorite desert is peanut butter cookies !! And/ or chocolate cake with white frosting!!
Cherry pie is my favorite desert. Already fan of Tate’s on FB.
I love all desserts but I think pound cake ….any and all flavors….has to be my favorite. can’t wait to try this recipe for the chocolate one!
My favorite dessert is turtle cheesecake. Nothing better than combining chocolate, caramel and cheesecake.
now a fan of Tate’s on FB 🙂
I “like” Tate’s Bake Shop.
That pound cake looks lovely! If I had to choose one (which is tough), I think my favorite dessert is brownies. Or maybe chocolate chip cookies.
I love peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
My favorite dessert is coconut cake.
How funny – I had never heard of this company before. Then, my husband brought home a bunch of wonderful cookies and brownies from a client at work – YUM! You made me laugh, by the way, with your comment about your pants hugging you. I know that feeling…
My favorite dessert is my Mom’s Orange Slice Cake and I only make it at Christmas. It’s soooo rich!!!
I “like” Tate’s Bake Shop on FB.
My favorite dessert is warm apple crisp. With or without vanilla ice cream….
My favorite dessert is brownie a la mode! 🙂
I like you on fb as Dee G
My favorite dessert is a pecan bar and if you’ve never had one from Tate’s then you need to right now! They have a few varieties like lemon and raspberry as well, but the pecan is the one I like.
I liked Tate’s on FB.
Chocolate Chip refrigerator cake, oh yes the one with Kaluha! As a matter of fact I am making it again for a brunch this Sunday! Very yummy!!!!
Btw, I am a Facebook fan!!!
Happy New Year!
My favorite dessert would be cake. Homemade, of course. 🙂
I’m already a fan on Facebook.
My fave dessert is definitely mango mousse cake, it is just so deliciously sweet and creamy it makes my mouth water just thinking about it! 🙂
I am also a fan of tates bake shop!
My favorite dessert is Lemon Meringue Pie. I like Tates on FB.
My mother makes a dessert called a Pretzel Torte — cheeries, cream cheese, crushed pretzels and the like — I could eat it every day!
I’m a Tate’s Bakeshop FB fan! Love their stuff!
tough one, maybe pumpkin cheesecake
I’m a fan of Tate’s on facebook
Chocolate chip cookies
I would LOVE all these goodies, PLEASE enter me…
Happy New Year to you and yours,
Donna
Please enter me “TWICE”… I AM FOLLOWING you on FACEBOOK and I’m a Tate’s Bake Shop fan.
Thank you and have a wonderful New Year,
Donna
My favorite dessert is warm peanut butter cookies. or fresh apple pie with soy ice cream. or espresso gelato. or buttermilk pie. I can’t choose!
I am a fan on Facebook!
I would have to say that my favorite dessert is warm peach cobbler made with buttermilk=)
I have friended Tate’s=) on FB.
I am so gonna make that cake this afternoon. It will be my favorite for today. “My house is a mess, my laundry isn’t done and my pants are giving me an added extra hug that I just don’t seem to remember feeling a mere two weeks ago.” And that’s why!
Plain and simple…Chocolate Chip Cookies are my favorite!!
I went to fb and now “like” Tate’s!! Yummy!!!
My Favorite is Black Majic Cake… it’s for when you need that extra chocolate in your life….
I am definitely a fan of Tate’s Bake Shop on Fb!
My favorite dessert is sugar cookies with frosting.
I’m a facebook fan too!
My favorite cake is “chocolate on chocolate”. And I’m already a Tate’s fan on FB! Thanks!
I’m a FB fan!!!!!
Tiramisu!
Thanks!
Chocolated pound cake! the perfect combination of texture and flavor
Happy New Year sweetie! 🙂
Don’t have a favorite. I love almost everything sweet! But over the holidays, I have enjoyed pumpkin pie the most.
I like Tate’s on facebook.
I love warm choc cake and vanilla ice cream. I made this choc pound cake tonight…and my entire family went nuts over it!! 🙂
also a tate’s fan on facebook
Chocolate chip cookies, warm from the oven, are my favorites!
yay.. i would love to win this!! and then go to the gym after I eat everything I baked.
and I’m now a Tate’s fan!
almond macaroons!
and i became a fan of tate’s on fb
my favorite dessert is pecan pie! or creme brulee!
My favorite dessert is brownies with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Your pound cake looks so good…I will have to make it soon!
Wendy you make me giggle and smile with delight. You are too funny! Happy New Year to you and I’m glad you started the year off with a Chocolate Pound Cake because it’s beautiful.
Let’s see, favorite dessert??….do cinnamon rolls count? Seriously those are my biggest weakness and I would (and could) eat them for both breakfast and dessert.
Thanks for the giveaway my friend. Hoping to see you in 2011. All the best!
one of my favorite desserts is jello pop cake or jello poke cake as some may call it. yum!oh!
I love flour-less chocolate cake. And I “like” Tate’s.
Your cake pic looks yummy!!
This looks delicious! How come I haven’t gotten to taste a wee bite of it? Guess I’ll have to make my own!
Are we at 100 yet?
I love chocolate chip cookies:)
I just liked Tates on facebook!
Wow…that looks good. Cake has to be my favorite. There is something soothing about a freshly baked, soft cake with lots of icing.
My favorite dessert is orange cake!
Homemade vanilla pudding. Yum!
I became a fan of Tate’s on facebook.
Who wouldn’t Fave his Cake YUMMY NUMMY. I did and I am also going to try it. Forget the Diet I am On right now lol. Oh it looks so Good. So YES I did Fav it. And THANK YOU for sharing.
YES I am a Tate’s Bake Shop Fan Who couldn’t or wouldn’t Be. Again Thank You VERY MUCH For sharing this wonderful Recipe W/All of Us.