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Chocolate Pound Cake With Chocolate Frosting
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Servings: 1
Categories:
Cakes
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Chocolate
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Desserts
Ingredients: 1
c
Shortening 3
c
Sugar 6
ea
Eggs 2 2/3
c
All-purpose flour 1/2
ts
Baking powder 1/4
ts
Salt 1/3
c
Cocoa 1
c
Milk 1
t
Vanilla extract
Chocolate Frosting (optional
-----CHOCOLATE FROSTING----- 1
c
Sugar 1/4
c
Butter or margarine 1/3
c
Evaporated milk 1/2
c
Semisweet chocolate morsels 1/2
ts
Vanilla extract
Directions:
Cream shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium
speed of an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after
each addition.
Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add to mixture alternately
with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix until just
blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan. Bake at
325F for 1 hour and 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted
near center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan,
and let cool completely on a wire rack. Spread with Chocolate
Frosting, if desired. Yield: one 10-inch cake.
CHOCOLATE FROSTING:
Combine first 3 ingredients in a small saucepan; bring to a boil,
and boil 1 minute, stirring occasionally. Stir in chocolate morsels
and vanilla. Beat with a wooden spoon about 3 minutes or to desired
spreading consistency. Yield: 1-1/4 cups.
Helen Dosier of North Carolina, in November, 1990 "Southern Living".
Typos by Jeff Pruett.
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