Louisiana chocolate pound cake

0 likes 0 comments Recipe by Judy Walton

Ingredients

2 sticks butter 1/2 cup shortening 3 cups sugar 3 cups flour 2 cups pecans 5 eggs 1 cup milk 2 tsp. vanilla 1/2 cup cocoa 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt

Directions

1. Cream butter, shortening and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg. Sift dry ingredients including cocoa. Add alternately with milk and vanilla. Beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Grease and flour tube pan. Cover bottom with 3/4 cup pecans. Pour batter into pan. Press rest of pecans on top covering entire surface. Bake at 325 for 1 hour or til done. Do not over bake. Cook 15 to 20 minutes in pan before removing.

desserts, cakes December 08, 2013 02:25