Chocolate Pound Cake I

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 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

Recipe

• preheat oven to 300 degrees f (150 degrees c).
• cream together butter or margarine, shortening, and sugar. add the eggs, vanilla, and salt mixing batter until light and creamy.
• 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.
• 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.
• bake in a preheated 300 degrees f (150 degrees c) oven for 1 hour 30 minutes.
• cool cake in pan for 10 minutes. then remove cake from its pan and let cool on a wire rack.