Chocolate Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks butter (room temperature)
3 c. sugar
3 c. flour
4 Tbsp. cocoa
1 c. milk (room temperature)
1/2 c. shortening (room temperature)
5 eggs (room temperature)
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. vanilla flavoring

Preparation

Cream butter, shortening and sugar well.
Add eggs, one at a time, and blend.
Sift together flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder.
Add flour and milk alternately, starting and ending with flour.
Add flavoring.
Bake in large 10-inch tube pan, well-greased and floured.
Bake at 315\u00b0 for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Let cool 10 minutes in pan and cool on rack for 5 minutes.
Then turn out onto plate.
Leave out the cocoa and add a little more flour if you want a plain cake.