Recipe: Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Frosting

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Chocolate Pound Cake with Fudge Frosting
From: Southern Living Home for the Holidays 1994

POUND CAKE
1 cup softened butter
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
5 lg eggs
3 cups sifted cake flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 1/4 cups milk
1 tsp vanilla

FUDGE FROSTING
2 cups sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 cup milk
1/2 cup shortening
1 tsp vanilla

Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, just until yellow disappears.

Combine dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour, just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.

Bake in a greased and floured 10" tube pan 1 hour at 325F., until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10-15 minutes before removing and cooling completely on rack. Spread with frosting.

Frosting:
Combine sugar, cocoa, salt, milk and shortening in saucepan. Boil 2 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly. remove and add vanilla. Beat at high speed until smooth and of the proper consistency.