Recipe For Chocolate Pound Cake

Ingredients

1 cup butter
1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
confectioners’ sugar

Directions

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and shortening with sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Combine flour, baking powder and cocoa. Add flour mixture alternately with combined milk and vanilla to the butter mixture. Mix well. Pour into greased tube pan without removable bottom. Bake at 350 degrees F for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until cake tests done. Allow to cool 15 minutes before removing cake from pan. Cool on wire rack. Sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar, if desired.