Chocolate Pecan Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 sticks butter
1/2 c. Crisco
3 c. sugar
6 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
3 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. cocoa
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 c. milk
1 c. chopped pecans

Preparation

Combine butter and Crisco.
Mix well.
Add sugar and mix at medium speed until light and fluffy.
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
Add vanilla.
Sift flour, cocoa and baking soda.
Add flour mixture and milk alternately, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
Pour into greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.
Sprinkle pecans evenly over batter.
Bake at 325\u00b0 for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until cake tests done.
Cool in pan 15 minutes.