Chocolate Pound Cake With Chocolate Frosting Recipe
Servings: 1
Ingredients
- 1 c. Shortening
- 3 c. Sugar
- 6 x Large eggs
- 2 2/3 c. All-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp Baking pwdr
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/3 c. Cocoa
- 1 c. Lowfat milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract Chocolate Frosting (optional
- 1 c. Sugar
- 1/4 c. Butter or possibly margarine
- 1/3 c. Evaporated lowfat milk
- 1/2 c. Semisweet chocolate morsels
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
Directions
- Cream shortening; gradually add in sugar, beating well at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add in Large eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
- Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add in to mix alternately with lowfat milk, beginning and ending with flour mix. Mix till just blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
- Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 325F for 1 hour and 25 to 30 min or possibly till a wooden pick inserted near center comes out clean. Cold in pan 10 min; remove from pan, and let cold completely on a wire rack. Spread with Chocolate Frosting, if you like.
- Yield: one 10-inch cake.
- CHOCOLATE FROSTING:Combine first 3 ingredients in a small saucepan; bring to a boil, and boil 1 minute, stirring occasionally. Stir in chocolate morsels and vanilla. Beat with a wooden spoon about 3 min or possibly to desired spreading consistency.
- Yield: 1-1/4 c..
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