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Chocolate Pound Cake

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Chocolate Pound Cake
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Prep Time: 12 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour, 32 minutes

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup butter or margarine
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 3 cups granulated sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 cups flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 4 to 5 tablespoons cocoa
  • 1 cup milk

Preparation:

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Incomplete Recipe!, Member realhappy56

The recipe instructions mention milk, but there's no milk listed in the ingredients. I had to look at other pound cake recipes and 'guesstimate' the amount to use (3/4 cup), which apparently was wrong since it took almost twice as long to bake. Really surprised no one else mentioned this.

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