Mama Cindy's Chocolate Pound Cake

My grandmother's delicious pound cake! This cake was sooo good, people would pay my grandmother to bake the cake for them for special events! She was the best cook in town. Enjoy!

• Ready In: 31 mins
• Serves: 10-12
• Yields: 1 cake

Ingredients

• 1  cup butter (not margarine)
• 1 1⁄2 cups shortening
• 3  cups sugar
• 3  cups cake flour (Swans Down)
• 1⁄2 cup  cocoa
• 1  teaspoon  almond extract
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 5  eggs
• 1 1⁄4 cups milk

Directions

1. Cream shortening, butter, sugar.
2. Add eggs (1 at a time).
3. Sift cocoa, baking powder and flour all together.
4. Add a portion of the dry ingredients alternating with milk until all have been added.
5. Put in greased and floured tube pan.
6. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes at 325 degrees.