Patty's Chocolate Pound Cake

 Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of shortening
• 2 sticks of marharine
• 3 cups of sugar
• 1/2 tsp of baking powder
• 1/2 tsp of salt
• 5 heaping tsp of cocoa
• 1 Tbsp of vanilla

Directions

1. Cream margarine, shortening, and sugar.
2. Add eggs, beating well.
3. In a separate bowl, mix flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt together.
4. Add flour mixture alternating with milk, to creamed mixture.Add vanilla.
5. Bake in well-greased and floured tube cake pan for 1 hour and 20 minutes at 325.
6. Ice cake while hot.

Icing

Ingredients

• 2/3 stick margarine, creamed
• 2/3 box of confectioners' sugar
• 1 tsp of vanilla
• 3 Tbsp of hot coffee
• 1 heaping Tbsp of cocoa

Directions

1. Cream margarine, gradually adding sugar, then other ingredients.
2. Mix well and spread over hot cake. (This freezes well.)

Source — Encore: A Second Cookbook
Prepared by Elizabeth Foster
September 27, 2021