Chocolate Pound Cake
It is chocolate through and through with rich chocolate icing!
September 18, 2022
It is chocolate through and through with rich chocolate icing!
September 18, 2022
CAKE
1/2 lb (2 sticks) butter
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
3 cups cake flour or all purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
5 eggs
1 1/4 cup milk
1 Tbsp vanilla
FUDGE ICING
2 cup sugar
1/4 cups cocoa
1/4 tsp salt
2/3 cup milk
1/2 cup shortening
1 tsp vanilla
CAKE
Cream butter, sugar, and shortening.
Sift dry ingredients together.
Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with milk, about 1/3 at a time, beating constantly
Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each
Add vanilla
Pour into greased and floured tube pan
Bake 1 hour and 25 minutes at 300 degrees
FUDGE ICING
Mix al ingredients together except vanilla
Boil rapidly for exactly 2 minutes
Remove from heat
Add vanilla
Beat for 5 minutes
Pour over cake
Enjoy!
Thanks to Kathy Maddox, Mary Rita Ingram and Letha Parmer for sharing their recipes of this favorite cake in the Gray Hill Church of God Cookbook, Heavenly Dishes, published many years ago when Pastor Phillip and Shirley Jones were ministering.
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