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I buy a Tastefully Simple chocolate pound cake - add butter and water - bake and enjoy!

Hershey bar Cake
(If you think this recipe isn't old, it calls for 5 cent candy
bars! This cake is like a great big brownie.)

8 plain (5 cent) Hershey bars
2 sticks butter
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 cups chopped nuts (optional)
2 1/2 cups sifted plain flour
1/4 teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 cup chocolate syrup

Soften candy is double boiler, let cool. Cream butter, add
sugar, add eggs. Put candy in. Add soda to buttermilk.
Combine nuts, salt and flour. Add alternately with buttermilk.
Stir in vanilla and chocolate syrup. Line bottom of pan with greased
and floured brown paper. Bake at 350º for one hour and
15 minutes. When cool, drizzle more chocolate on top or ice
with your favorite chocolate icing.
Unbelievably rich and more like a giant brownie than a cake

Chocolate Pound Cake

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

Beat butter and shortening; add sugar and mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; beat in vanilla. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl then add alternately with milk to creamed mixture. Bake chocolate pound cake in a greased 10-inch tube pan at 325° for 80 minutes, or until chocolate pound cake bounces back when touched lightly in the center with finger.

Powdered Sugar Glaze
1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons milk (more if needed)
Mix milk into sugar.
Add more milk, 1 Tbs at a time, if needed to achieve desired consistency.
Drizzle on desired product.

Double Chocolate Pound Cake
1/2 c Butter or margarine, ( Room temperature )
3/4 c Brown sugar
3/4 c Granulated sugar
4 Squares (4 oz.) unsweetened
Chocolate, melted
4 Eggs
2 1/2 c Cake flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1 c Buttermilk
2 ts Vanilla
1 c Chocolate chips coated in
2 tb All-purpose flour
Preparation time: 20 min.
Baking time: about 50 min.
Oven temperature: 350º F.
This cake is so rich and moist and it keeps well for some time in a well covered cake tin or wrapped in plastic in the refrigerator.
For one 10-inch cake you will need: Fresh sliced strawberries, for garnish 1.
Cream butter with sugars until smooth and well blended.
Add chocolate and eggs, one at a time.
Beat until fluffy.
Mix flour and baking soda.
Add to creamed mixture.
Blend in buttermilk and vanilla, stir until smooth.
Add chocolate chips.
Turn batter into a well-greased and floured 10-inch tube baking pan.
Bake at 350 degrees F.
for 40 to 50 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Let cake cool in pan for a couple of minutes.
Turn cake out of pan onto a wire rack.
Cool completely.
Garnish with fresh sliced strawberries or other berries.
Serve with a dollop of whipping cream.

ok how do you make a chocolate pound cake please let me know