Favorite Chocolate Pound Cake

9 ingredients
12 steps

Ingredients

  • 2 sticks butter
  • 1/2 c. Crisco (solid)
  • 3 c. sugar
  • 5 eggs, separated
  • 3 c. sifted cake flour
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 c. Hershey's cocoa
  • 1 c. milk
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Directions

  1. 1
    Sift cake flour together with baking powder and cocoa 2 times. Cream shortening with 2 1/4 cups sugar.
  2. 2
    Add egg yolks, one at a time.
  3. 3
    Then alternately add dry ingredients with wets (milk and vanilla).
  4. 4
    Then fold in egg whites, beaten to peaks and into which 3/4 cup sugar has been incorporated.
  5. 5
    Cut waxed paper to fit bottom of 10-inch tube pan.
  6. 6
    Grease the paper and dust with cocoa after placing in pan.
  7. 7
    Bake 1 hour and 20 to 30 minutes.
  8. 8
    Test with a toothpick.
  9. 9
    Do not overbake.
  10. 10
    Cool in pan on wire rack for 30 minutes.
  11. 11
    Turn out carefully.
  12. 12
    Cool completely before slicing.

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