Chocolate Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3 sticks butter or margarine
3 c. sugar
5 eggs
3 c. flour
1/2 c. cocoa
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 c. milk
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Sift dry ingredients together.
Cream butter and sugar until very light.
Add 4 of the eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition.
Add dry ingredients and milk alternately to the creamed mixture.
Add the vanilla, then thoroughly beat the last egg into the batter.
Pour into 10-inch tube pan that has been greased and lightly floured.
Bake in 325\u00b0 oven for 1 1/2 hours.
Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out on cake rack and finish cooling.