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Shaker Chocolate Pound Cake

Yields:1 cake
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Recipe Cooking TimePreparation20 minutes
Cooking1 .5 hrs
Ready In1 hours
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Ingredients

1 x butter and flour for pan
1 cup butter
1/2 cup lard
3 cups sugar
5 large eggs
3 cups flour, all-purpose sifted
1/2 cup cocoa powder sifted
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups milk
2 tablespoons chocolate grated
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 x whipped cream optional
1 x chocolate shaved, optional

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

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 325 degrees 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.

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