Chocolate Pound Cake

Photo: flickr user mikeemilio

Ingredients

1/2 pound butter

3 cups sugar

3 cups cake flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup milk

1/2 cup vegetable shortening

5 eggs

4 tablespoons cocoa

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 teaspoon almond if you desire

1/2 box confectioners' sugar

3 teaspoons condensed milk or can cream

1/2 bar German chocolat

1/2 stick butter

Preparation

Cream butter and shortening. Add sugar and beat and cream until well blended; add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Sift and measure cake flour, sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Add this, alternating with the milk, to the mixture until blended. Add flavoring.

Bake in tube or pound cake pan at 325 degrees for about 1 hour and 25 minutes.

Melt butter and chocolate; add milk and add sugar. Beat until smooth. Cover top and side.