Title: Chocolate Pound Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Categories: Dessert, Cake, Chocolate, Sthrn/livng
Yield: 1 X 10" cake

1 c Shortening
3 c Sugar
6 Eggs
2 2/3 c All-purpose flour
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
1/3 c Cocoa
1 c Milk
1 ts Vanilla extract
Chocolate Frosting (optional

-----------------------------CHOCOLATE FROSTING-----------------------------
1 c Sugar
1/4 c Butter or margarine
1/3 c Evaporated milk
1/2 c Semisweet chocolate morsels
1/2 ts Vanilla extract

Cream shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of
an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition.
Combine flour and next 3 ingredients; add to mixture alternately with
milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix until just blended
after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 325F
for 1 hour and 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted near center
comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool
completely on a wire rack. Spread with Chocolate Frosting, if desired.
Yield: one 10-inch cake.

CHOCOLATE FROSTING:
Combine first 3 ingredients in a small saucepan; bring to a boil, and
boil 1 minute, stirring occasionally. Stir in chocolate morsels and
vanilla. Beat with a wooden spoon about 3 minutes or to desired spreading
consistency. Yield: 1-1/4 cups.

Helen Dosier of North Carolina, in November, 1990 "Southern Living". Typos
by Jeff Pruett.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #196

Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:06:36 -0500

From: pickell@cyberspc.mb.ca (S.Pickell)