Best Chocolate Pound Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• icing sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325°f grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan or two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
• 2 sift cocoa into a small bowl, stir in flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
• 3 in a larger mixer bowl, beat butter and mayonnaise until smooth. gradually beat in sugar; beat at high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. blend in vanilla. add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each adition. stir in flour mixture and milk alternately, beginning and ending with flour. spread in prepared pan.
• 4 bake 55-65 minutes for loaf pans. 75-85 minutes for tube pan or bundt pan, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• 5 cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes. loosen cake from pan and remove. cool completely. wrap in foil and let stand at least overnight.
• 6 tip: for a decorative effect, place a doily on top of cake and sprinkle with icing sugar. remove doily.