#479 - Chocolate Pound Cake

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 cup butter
3 cups white sugar
1/2 cup Crisco shortening
1 tsp. vanilla
5 eggs
3 cups unsifted flour
6 TBSP Hershey's cocoa
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1 cup milk
Domino's powdered sugar for dusting

In a mixer, combine butter, white sugar, Crisco and vanilla--beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Add cocoa, baking powder and salt--beat well. Add milk and slowly add flour--beat until well blended. Pour into a greased and floured bundt pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes--test with a toothpick for doneness. Cool cake, dump cake onto a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.