Chocolate Pound Cake
1 Stick butter
1 Stick margarine
½ cup of Crisco
5 eggs
3 Cups of Flour (Plain)
3 Cups of Sugar
1 ¼ of Milk
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
½ cup of cocoa
Cream butter, margarine and Crisco, with sugar. Add one egg at a time, beating well after adding each one. Add vanilla flavoring. Add flour and milk. Beginning with flour and ending with flour. Pour in greased tube pan. Bake in oven for two hours at 300 degrees.
• If you want Lemon pound cake – omit cocoa and vanilla…and add ½ cup of flour and juice of 1 squeezed lemon.
• If you want spice marble cake – omit cocoa and add 1-tsp. cinnamon, ¼ cloves ½ all spice, ½ tsp. nutmeg… Note you will split batter and add spices to half of the batter.. then in tube pan you will alternate spoon of regular, spoon of spice
Chocolate frosting (optional)
½ stick margarine
tablespoon of cocoa
¾ cup box 4x sugar
dash of salt
Mix with buttermilk to proper consistency