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Ingredients
| granulated sugar: 3 cups |
| salted butter: 1 cup (softened) |
| multipurpose shortening: 1/2 cup |
| all-purpose flour (unsifted): 3 1/2 cups |
| eggs: 5 |
| baking powder: 1/2 tsp |
| salt: 1/4 tsp |
| unsweetened cocoa powder (sifted): 1/2 cup |
| 2% milk: 1 1/8 cups |
| vanilla extract: 2 tsp |
Chocolate Pound Cake I
Credit: AllRecipes
User rating:
"This was my mother's recipe. You may eat it as is or put a fudge frosting on it."
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Prep Time
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Cook Time
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Servings
14 serving(s)
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Directions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
- Cream together butter or margarine, shortening, and sugar. Add the eggs, vanilla, and salt mixing batter until light and creamy.
- Add 1cup flour and the baking powder to egg butter mixture. Stir until just combined. Then add 1/2 cup milk stirring until combined. Continue alternating flour and milk, ending with flour.
- Stir in cocoa and mix well. Place batter in a greased and floured tube pan that has been lined with greased and floured baking parchment paper.
- Bake in a preheated 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) oven for 1 hour 30 minutes.
- Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes. Then remove cake from its pan and let cool on a wire rack.