Shelly's Recipe

CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE WITH CHOCOLATE SAUCE

Category: Cakes

Cake
1/2 cup Crisco, softened
2 sticks oleo, softened
3 cups sugar
1/2 cup cocoa
3 cups plain flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup whole milk at room temperature
5 large eggs at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla

Sift flour, baking powder, cocoa, and salt. Set aside. Cream softened Crisco, oleo, and sugar.

Add eggs one at a time to Crisco mixture. Alternately, add flour mixture and milk beginning and ending with flour mixture. Add vanilla. Spray bottom of tube cake pan with cooking spray. Pour in cake batter. Remove one rack of oven. Cook at 325 for 65 – 70 minutes.

Chocolate Sauce
1 stick oleo
3 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup whole milk

Mix cocoa and sugar in small bowl. Melt oleo in saucepan. Add sugar mixture and milk to
melted oleo. Bring to a boil. Boil one minute. Let cool. Spoon chocolate sauce over slices of cake. (The cake is delicious to warm slices of cake with chocolate sauce
in the microwave for a few seconds.)