Ugh! Wish I'd read the reviews before making this! I just spent 2 hours making this for a friend's birthday party and now I'll have to start all over tomorrow morning. With my own recipe. Not yours, Martha. This recipe is absolutely disgusting. It should be removed from the website. Generally I find martha's recipes reliable; I'm sorely disappointed with this one. A whole bar of butter, so many eggs, much precious cocoa and time, time, time into the trash. Inedible. Boo, thumbs down :(

Hi there! I'm looking to make this today, but substituting the sugar for agave. I've never made a pound cake with agave in the past. Would you suggest lowering the eggs to 7 instead of the 9 listed?

It was mediocre. Tasted too much of chocolate powder and not a whole lot of anything else. I lowered the salt.

THIS RECIPE IS MISSING SOMETHING: With all due respect, the salty taste was there with the chocolate and there was nothing light and fluffy about this cake. The amount of butter an eggs used to making this cake was wasted. After a day in the fridge this was worse -dry, course, no fluff. Think twice before investing in this recipe.

Nothing to write home about. I halved the recipe and used regular Hershey's baking cocoa. I haven't been able to find a fancier baking cocoa in my local stores. Nonetheless, the cake was a little bit dry and not chocolatey as I had hoped.

Hi, I check the recipe and cannot find out where the leavener is either baking powder or baking soda. Is it no need? Pls suggest.

READ the reviews before you make this cake! I didn't....and wasted a lot of time, money and energy. :-( I thought 1 Tablespoon of salt was too much, but I still added it....and although the cakes were baked to perfection, and the texture was amazing, all I could taste was SALT. All that work and money went right in the trash bin. Lesson learned!

Do not add all the salt in this recipe!!! This is the worst cake I have ever made!!! I knew 1 Tbls. of salt was way too much but I still wanted to test the recipe like it said! Big mistake! I should of known better! I've been baking for years and have never seen this amount in a batter! Lesson learned!

The best chocolate pound cake! I just changed some ingredients ---instead of unsalted butter , I used salted butter and instead of 1 tablespoon coarse salt, I just used a pinch of iodized salt. Love this cake!

I made the cake and it is very good. I think the salt is a typo. I would love though. I would love a responce. Course salt seems odd to me but it might be great. I used sea salt grinded and cut it in half. Thanks.