Chocolate Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter
1/2 c. Crisco vegetable shortening
3 c. granulated sugar
5 large eggs
3 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 c. unsweetened cocoa powder
1 c. milk
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 325\u00b0.
Cream butter and shortening together in a large bowl until light and smooth.
Add sugar and continue beating until well blended.
Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition until well blended.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa; add alternately with the milk to the batter, beating well.
Add the vanilla and beat until well blended.
Grease and flour a 10-inch tube or Bundt pan.
Pour in the batter and \"spank\" the bottom of the pan to distribute the batter evenly.
Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Let the cake cool in the pan and turn out onto a cake plate.
Wonderful!