Chocolate Pound Cake With Fudge Frosting

Chocolate Pound Cake With Fudge Frosting



Ingrients & Directions


POUND CAKE
1 c Softened butter
1/2 c Shortening
3 c Sugar
5 lg Eggs
3 c Sifted cake flour
1/2 c Cocoa
1/4 ts Baking powder
1 1/4 c Milk
1 ts Vanilla


FUDGE FROSTING
2 c Sugar
1/4 c Cocoa
1/4 ts Salt
2/3 c Milk
1/2 c Shortening
1 ts Vanilla


Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in egg, 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 improver.
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 houseclean. Cool in pan on a wire
wheel 10-15 minutes before removing and cooling completely on wrack. Spread
with ice.


Icing:


Combine dough, cocoa, saltiness, milk and shortening in saucepan. Churn 2 minutes
over medium oestrus, stirring invariably. remove and add vanilla.


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


Southern Living Family for the Holidays 1994 Shared by Carolyn Shaw 12-95

Yields
1 Servings