Southern Georgia Chocolate Pound Cake

By vegielover

Published in Gourmet Magazine sometime in the 1960's, this became a family and personal favorite.

Ingredients

• 3 cups flour
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup cocoa
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 3 tsp. vanilla
• 3 eggs
• 1/4 cup light cream (more milk works fine, too)

Details

Servings 12
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 110mins

Preparation

Step 1

1. In a large bowl of an electric mixer, combine dry ingredients. Make a well in the center and add butter, milk and vanilla. Beat mixture for 5 minutes.

2. Add eggs, one at at time, and cream, beating thoroughly after each addition.

3. Pour batter into well-oiled 10" tube pan and bake at 325º for 1 1/2 hours or until it tests done. Cool completely on a wire rack and remove from pan.