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     Title: Chocolate Pound Cake with Chocolate Frosting
Categories: Dessert, Cakes, chocolate
     Yield: 1 x 10" cake

     1 c  Shortening
     3 c  Sugar
     6 ea 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

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     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.

 1990 "Southern Living".

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