Recipe: Chocolate Pound Cake

Chocolate Pound Cake
Source: Weaver341
Makes One 10-inch tube cake

1 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
5 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 tbsp vanilla extract

Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer about 2 minutes or until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed 5 to 7 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until yellow disappears.

Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan.

Bake at 325 for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes to 15 minutes; remove from pan and let cool completely on wire rack.