Recipe - Chocolate Pound Cake With Fudge Frosting

POUND CAKE
1 cup Softened butter
One half cup Shortening
3 cup Sugar
5 lg Eggs
3 cup Sifted cake flour
One half cup Cocoa
One fourth teaspoon Baking powder
1 One fourth cup Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla

FUDGE FROSTING
2 cup Sugar
One fourth cup Cocoa
One fourth teaspoon Salt
2/3 cup Milk
One half cup Shortening
1 teaspoon Vanilla

Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, just until
yellow disappears.

Combine dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture alternately with milk,
beginning and ending with flour, just until blended after each addition.
Stir in vanilla.

Bake in a greased and floured 10" tube pan 1 hour at 325F., until a
toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire
rack 1015 minutes before removing and cooling completely on rack. Spread
with frosting.

Frosting:

Combine sugar, cocoa, salt, milk and shortening in saucepan. Boil 2 minutes
over medium heat, stirring constantly. remove and add vanilla.

Beat at high speed until smooth and of the proper consistency.

Southern Living Home for the Holidays 1994 Shared by Carolyn Shaw 1295
Posted to MMRecipes Digest V3 #196

Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:06:36 0500

From: pickell@cyberspc.mb.ca (S.Pickell)