Rich Chocolate Pound Cake
Submitted by katiejohnson on March 15, 2004 at 8:20 am

DESCRIPTION
Rich Chocolate Pound Cake

SUMMARY
Yield 0 File under cakes

INSTRUCTIONS
This started as my husband's grandmother's chocolate pound cake recipe. I tweaked it a bit and it is now his all-time favorite pound cake.

1/2 C shortening
1 C butter (I always use unsalted, but salted is OK), softened
3 C sugar
5 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 C buttermilk
3 C all-purpose flour
1/2 C cocoa
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder

Preheat oven to 350. Grease a bundt pan and dust with cocoa.

Cream shortening and butter together, then add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Combine dry ingredients and add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, starting and ending with dry ingredient mixture.

Pour into greased and cocoa-dusted pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until cake tests done with a toothpick or skewer. I usually start checking my cake for doneness after 1 hour, because my oven is a bit unreliable.

Yields approximately 30 slices.

Calories: 226.9
Fat: 10.7 g
Carbohydrates: 31 g
Fiber: .8 g
Sodium: 125 mg