Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

-------------------------POUND CAKE------------------------------
1 c Softened butter
1/2 c Shortening
3 c Sugar
5 lg Eggs
3 c Sifted cake flour
1/2 c Cocoa
1/4 ts Baking powder
1 1/4 c Milk
1 ts Vanilla

-----------------------FUDGE FROSTING----------------------------
2 c Sugar
1/4 c Cocoa
1/4 ts Salt
2/3 c Milk
1/2 c Shortening
1 ts Vanilla

Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, just
until yellow disappears.

Combine dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture alternately with
milk, beginning and ending with flour, just until blended after each
addition. Stir in vanilla.

Bake in a greased and floured 10" tube pan 1 hour at 325F., until a
toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a
wire rack 10-15 minutes before removing and cooling completely on
rack. Spread with frosting.

Frosting:

Combine sugar, cocoa, salt, milk and shortening in saucepan. Boil 2
minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly. remove and add vanilla.

Beat at high speed until smooth and of the proper consistency.

Southern Living Home for the Holidays 1994 Shared by Carolyn Shaw
12-95

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