Recipe

Chocolate Butter Pound Cake Recipe

	Henrie / All my dishes 1 year, 12 months ago If you are a Pound Cake lover, and love Chocolate, then you have the best of both worlds in this cake. Enjoy! Prep:20m Cook:80m Servings:16	Henrie
	dessert cake pound easy

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Ingredients

Chocolate Butter Pound Cake

Cream well:

2 sticks butter

1/2 cup shortening

3 cups sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

2 tsp. brandy (optional)

1/4 tsp. Salt

Sift together:

3 cups flour

1 tsp. baking powder

3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa

Add these dry ingredients to the creamed mixture alternately with:

1 1/4 cups milk

Beat well.

Fold in:1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Glaze:

11/2 squares unsweetened baking chocolate

2 Tbsp. butter confectioners' sugar 1 tsp. vanilla

Directions

Pour batter into a well-greased 10-inch tube pan or two 9 x5x 3-inch

loaf pans. Bake in a preheated 325° oven for about 1 hour and 20

minutes. Be sure to test for doneness with a cake tester.

Glaze:

In a saucepan, melt baking chocolate with butter. Remove from burner; add enough confectioners' sugar and hot water to make glaze thin enough to drizzle on cake, adding 1 tsp. vanilla last.

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