Mocha Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter or margarine
2 c. sugar
4 eggs
2 3/4 c. unsifted flour
1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa
3 Tbsp. instant coffee powder, mash with back of spoon
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. vanilla
1 c. sour cream

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar; beat in eggs, one at a time.
Measure dry ingredients into a bowl, then sift.
Blend dry ingredients with the creamed mixture (spoon works best; batter is very thick at this point).
Add vanilla and sour cream, mixing until thoroughly blended.
Spoon into greased and floured 10-inch tube pan, spreading evenly.
Bake about 1 1/2 hours at 325\u00b0, until cake begins to pull away from sides of pan and tester comes out of the center clean.
Let cake stand in pan for 10 minutes before inverting pan on a rack to remove cake.
Cut into thin slices.