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to get started—yellow, white, devil’s a chocolate ganache, or cover it with a
food, or German chocolate cake. Stud spoonful of warm lemon curd sauce.
it with chocolate chips or chopped And it is delicious soaked in amaretto,

candy bars, or fill it with rings of pud- rum, or Kahlúa.
ding or chewy coconut macaroon. Cre-
ate a dark, dense, intense beauty like “Research tells us fourteen out of any
the Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound ten individuals like chocolate.”
Cake, or something a little less heavy —SANDRA BOYNTON
like A Lighter Chocolate Pound Cake,
made with yogurt. Chocolate pound cakes are versa-
The pound cake needs no topping tile, and they’re good keepers. You can
to finish it off, but that shouldn’t stop freeze them for up to 6 months if you

you from coating it with a thin shiny like to bake ahead. And they ship
glaze or a sturdier frosting made from well—just in case the lucky recipients
cocoa and marshmallow. Seal it in aren’t living close to home.