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Chocolate Pound Cake

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Serves 16 to 20

Ingredients

3 cups sugar
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter
1/4 pound (1 stick) margarine
5 eggs
3 cups cake flour
4 tablespoons cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon vanilla

Preparation

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix sugar with butter and margarine; add eggs one at a time, beating after each. Mix together dry ingredients. Add dry ingredients alternately with milk to butter mixture, beginning with flour and ending with flour. Add vanilla. Bake in a greased and floured tube pan for about 1 hour.

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