Shaker Chocolate Pound Cake

Recipe Ingredients

		Butter and flour for pan
1 cup	198g / 7oz	Butter
1/2 cup	99g / 3.5oz	Lard
3 cups	594g / 20oz	Sugar
5		Eggs
3 cups	187g / 6.6oz	Flour - sifted
1/2 cup	55g / 1.9oz	Cocoa - sifted
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Baking powder
1/4 teaspoon	1.3ml	Salt
1 1/4 cups	296ml	Milk
2 tablespoons	30ml	Grated chocolate
1 teaspoon	5ml	Vanilla
		Whipped cream (optional)
		Shaved chocolate (optional)

Recipe Instructions

Preheat oven to 325F. Butter and flour a tube pan.

In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, lard, and sugar together until they are light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Sift together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.

Add these dry ingredients alternately with the milk to the egg mixture, stirring after each addition until well blended.

Add the grated chocolate. Stir in the vanilla. Turn the batter into the prepared pan.

Bake at 325F for 1 1/2 hours.

Turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Fill the center with whipped cream and sprinkle with shaved chocolate, if desired.

Source:
Family Circle "Back to Good Health"

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