An old family recipe from Mama Peggy, found on a notepad in a box filled with some of her favorites. Mama Peggy was renowned for many of the things she cooked, but those who sampled her chocolate pound cake considered themselves blessed! This is the best chocolate pound cake you’ll ever taste.
Cake Ingredients
- ▢ — 2 sticks butter or margarine
- ▢ — 3 cups sugar
- ▢ — 3 cups flour
- ▢ — ½ tsp baking powder
- ▢ — 2 tsp vanilla
- ▢ — ½ cup Crisco
- ▢ — 5 eggs
- ▢ — ½ cup cocoa
- ▢ — 1 cup “sweet milk” (that’s just means regular milk)
Icing Ingredients
- ▢ — 6 Tbsp cocoa
- ▢ — 6 Tbsp hot canned milk
- ▢ — 6 Tbsp butter
- ▢ — 3 cups sugar
- ▢ — 1 tsp vanilla
Cake Instructions
- ▢ — Beat butter and shortening.
- ▢ — Add sugar and mix well.
- ▢ — Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- ▢ — Beat in vanilla.
- ▢ — Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl then add alternately with milk to creamed mixture.
- ▢ — Bake in a greased pan at 325° for 1 hour 25 minutes, or until chocolate pound cake bounces back when touched lightly in the center with finger.
Icing Instructions
- ▢ — Dissolve the cocoa in the hot milk.
- ▢ — Put the sugar, butter and vanilla into a bowl (do not melt the butter).
- ▢ — Pour in the cocoa/milk mixture and stir (or use a mixer on low setting) until the butter is melted and the icing is smooth and creamy.
- ▢ — Spread evenly over the top of the finished cake (but not before cake has cooled completely).
Nutrition
- Calories 305.8
- Protein 3.7 g
- Total Fat 8.2 g
- — Unsaturated Fat 4.5 g
- — Saturated Fat 3.7 g
- Cholesterol 43.5 mg
- Sodium 53.6 mg
- Carbohydrates 53.8 g
- — Net Carbs 52.8 g
- — Fiber 1.0 g
- Sugars 40.5 g
Original Recipe
Sabrina Powell
April 25, 2019 2:59 amI have been looking for old school pound cake my great aunt use to have it for us on Christmas but we never knew who made it i hope this is it it looks like it is im gonna try it out thanks sooo much.