Nana’s Chocolate Pound Cake

Here’s an awesome recipe straight from my grandmother’s handwriting for a delicious chocolate pound cake:

Ingredients

• 2 sticks of butter
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 3 cups of sugar
• 5 eggs
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/4 cups of milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1.  Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

2.  Cream the butter, sugar, and shortening.

3.  Add the eggs one at a time and beat well.

4.  Add the dry ingredients alternately with milk, being sure to blend well.

5.  Add vanilla extract.

6.  Pour into a large greased tube or Bundt cake pan and bake for one hour and 10 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean.