Chocolate Pound Cake

By MooK

Ingredients

• 3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 sticks butter, softened
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup evaporated milk
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Details

Servings 8

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Set aside. In a large bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, mixing between additions.

Add flour mixture and evaporated milk alternately and mix well.(*The original instructions don't tell exactly how to do this so this is what I do: I add 1/3 flour mixture, one-half of the evap. milk, 1/3 flour mixture, one-half of the evap. milk, 1/3 flour mixture.)

Add vanilla and mix well. Pour batter into a greased and floured** 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely on wire rack.