Chocolate Pound Cake I

Name: Chocolate Pound Cake I
Ingredients: 3 cups white sugar; 1 cup butter, softened; 1/2 cup shortening; 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour; 5 eggs; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 1/8 cups milk; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

10 ingredients

6 steps

Ingredients

3 cups white sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup shortening
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
5 eggs
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/8 cups milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

1

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
2

Cream together butter or margarine, shortening, and sugar. Add the eggs, vanilla, and salt mixing batter until light and creamy.
3

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.
4

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.
5

Bake in a preheated 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) oven for 1 hour 30 minutes.
6

Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes. Then remove cake from its pan and let cool on a wire rack.