Chocolate Pound Cake with Real Fudge Icing

Ingredients

Elizabeth Langley, Chambers County

½ lb. butter or margarine

½ cup shortening

3 cups sugar

3 cups cake flour

5 eggs

¼ tsp. baking powder

½ cup cocoa

1 tsp. vanilla

1 ¼ cups sweet milk

Real fudge icing:

2 cups sugar

¼ tsp. salt

½ cup shortening

¼ cup cocoa

2/3 cup sweet milk

Preparation

Cream butter, shortening, and sugar.  Sift dry ingredients together.  Add dry ingredients and milk alternately about 1 to 3 times beating constantly.  Add eggs 1 at a time.  Add vanilla and pour batter into greased and floured tube pan.  Bake for 1 hour and 25 minutes at 300 degrees. 

Real fudge icing:

Mix all ingredients together, except vanilla.  Boil rapidly for exactly 2 minutes, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat and add vanilla.  Pour into mixer and beat exactly 5 minutes.  Frost cooled chocolate pound cake.