Gentlemen, START YOUR MIXERS!
This cake is my favorite, my signature if you will. I've been making it for 20+ years from a recipie my mom copied out of a cookbook years before. Its a great party cake, I always made this for the church choir pot luck, and they devoured it.
I'd love to hear back from anyone who trys this recipie out. Its one I have closely guarded over the years, but now... bake and have fun, be it with NuTone, Sunbeam, or Kitchenaid!
Chocolate Pound Cake
3 cups sugar
3 cups flour
1 cup baking cocoa(I've always used Hersheys)
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 sticks soft butter(I use Imperial Margerine usually)
1 1/2 cups milk
1 1/4 tablespoons vanilla extract
3 eggs
1/4 cup whipping cream
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Generously grease a 10" tube pan
Sift the dry ingredients into the large mixer bowl. Add the butter, milk, and vanilla and turn the mixer to low speed first to moisten everything, and then turn the speed to medium and beat for 5 minutes, scraping down the sides of the bowl often.
When the 5 minutes are up add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. (Kitchenaid users, turn the speed down to low before adding the eggs!)
Next add the cream slowly, and once its all in turn the speed back up to medium and beat for a minute or so.
Total mixing time should be about 10 minutes.
Pour the batter into the greased pan and bake for 90 minutes +/- a few until the cake shrinks back from the sides of the pan.
Cool completely before removing from pan.
To serve, dust the top with powdered sugar. It also goes really well with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a slice!
Happy baking guys!
Jeff
