Aunt Betty’s Chocolate Pound Cake

I got this here recipe for Chocolate Pound Cake from my Aunt Betty. She had lovingly baked it, put it on a nice white plate, and brought it over to the house the day of my Daddy’s funeral. Now, that may seem strange to some folks, to be equating recipes, to the loss of someone you love deeply. But, to me, that cake was real comfort food.

Aunt Betty placed her cake on the table, which was already filled with everything from fried chicken to potato salad, cole slaw, and sliced ham, and then she scurried off into the kitchen to help out.  The house was filled with family and friends, and the table was even more filled with all the food they’d brought over. But, right there, amidst all the chatter and busyness of people,  quietly sat  Aunt Betty’s perfect Chocolate Pound Cake. Proud. Simple. Southern. Waiting to be invited onto a plate. It just seemed so, right.

Aunt Betty came into the room to put out some more food and saw me staring at her cake. “Well, now, Bobbi Jo, would you like a piece of that Chocolate Pound Cake,” she asked.  I smiled and said,  “Yes, Aunt Betty, I think I would.” And for the next hour, we just sat in my Daddy’s full house and talked about  Uncle Henry’s pig trough that he turned into a fish fryer for camping, about Ola Mae’s new piano, and I wrote down the recipe for that beautiful  Chocolate Pound Cake,  that I  was so glad I had invited onto my plate.

Aunt Betty’s Chocolate Pound Cake

Recipe by: Bobbi Jo Lathan

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: Southern

Serves: 6

PREP TIME

15 mins

COOK TIME

1 hour 20 mins

TOTAL TIME

1 hour 35 mins

INGREDIENTS

2 sticks Butter (softened)

1⁄2 cup Crisco

3 cups Sugar

5 Eggs (beaten)

3 cups Flour

1⁄2 teaspoon Baking powder (Only Rumford’s)

6 tablespoons Cocoa

1 cup Milk (Evaporated)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cream the softened butter, Crisco and sugar together.

2. Add the beaten eggs and mix well.

3. Mix the flour, cocoa and baking powder together. Add these dry ingredients to the butter/egg batter alternating it with the evaporated milk so it will mix well.

4. Once all mixed together, grease and flour a bundt pan.

5. Pour batter into pan and bake at 325° F for one hour. Then turn the oven down to 300° F and bake for another 20 minutes.

6. Let cool and remove from the bundt pan, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve it up! It looks beautiful and tastes great!

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