The Bag Lady's Favorite Chocolate Pound Cake

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen, 2007

Show: Paula's PartyEpisode: Fried vs. BBQ

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (36)

RECIPE
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Cook Time:
1 hr 45 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
16 servings

Times:

Prep: 10 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 1 hr 45 min
Total:: 1 hr 55 min

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Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons cocoa
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

Special equipment: 10-inch bundt pan

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

Grease and flour a 10-inch bundt pan. Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cocoa and set aside. Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, shortening, and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, and mix well after each addition.

Add flour and buttermilk alternately to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Add vanilla and mix well. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour and 45 minutes or until cake is done.

Remove from oven and allow cake to cool in pan for 10 minutes. Invert onto cake plate and serve.

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recipe The Bag Lady's Favorite Chocolate Pound Cake
L. Denver, CO 01-26-2010
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Don't hold the butter!
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

I made this pound cake tonight as directed and it even came out of my fancy dancy bundt pan!! Wow, that's an accomplishment.... I thought this was more of a chocolate cake rather than a choclate pound cake, I thought it would be more dense and wish it was. I can't believe that I actually used shortening, I thought it was extinct, guess not. I also think this cake needs some sort of really wonderful topping or icing. BUT, I still love to watch Paula, she is WONDERFUL and she makes me happy when I watch her. She's quite a girl...........Read more
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Michelle Salt Lake City, UT 12-20-2009
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My husband ate 7 slices!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

My husband, who never eats sweets, actually ate 7 slices of this cake! I used a "speciality" bundt pan shaped like a ring of... Christmas trees, and I could tell it was too much batter, so I left out about 1/2 cup of the batter from the pan. Still, it did rise a lot, over the top of the pan. So beware, maybe cooks will want to bake some of the batter into a few cupcakes. I think it is best never to fill a cake pan more than about 3/4 full---But It is a very tasty, fine-textured, not-too-chocolatey cake and every crumb got gobbled up at my house!Read more
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Marianne Gillette, WY 12-04-2009
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Another winner from Paula!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I have a recipe very similar to this one for many years and it always came out perfect - until yesterday. It bubbled up,... spilled out of the pan and all over the oven. What a mess! Then I read some comments on how the same thing had happened to people making this recipe. I had no idea what went wrong, but since I am supposed to be shipping the cake to a friend for her birthday I had to try again this morning. Then a saw it...I think I used 1/2 tsp of baking soda instead of 1/2 tsp baking powder. My husband asked what the difference was and I wasn't sure. I knew both were levenning agents but nothing more. My husband googled it - finding out that baking soda is 4 times stronger than baking powder...The explains the volcanic eruption! Thought I would share so others will hopefully not make the same mistake. The upside is that today's cake is perfection and the oven is really clean! Read more
recipe The Bag Lady's Favorite Chocolate Pound Cake
Lindsay Westlake, OH 10-18-2009
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Worth a second try
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

I decided to make this cake for a get-together with my boyfriend and another couple. I followed the recipe as is, except I... cut out 1/2 cup of sugar and added about 1 cup of capuccino chips. Those really added a lot of flavor, I would encourage others to consider the same. My cake was pretty dense and wasn't quite as moist as I would have liked, but it was still very tasty. It would be wonderful with coffee. I would probably make this again and maybe watch the baking time more closely. I didn't go the full time because I used a smaller pan but I maybe went over by just a few minutes.Read more
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null null, null 09-04-2009
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Chocolate Pound Cake is Not Supposed to Be Chocolate Cake
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This is EXACTLY what chocolate pound cake should taste like. It is not a "chocolate cake", but a chocolate pound cake. This... is exactly the same recipe my paternal grandmother from Vienna. GA and my maternal grandmother from Hoschton, GA used over and over again. Maybe if you are not from the South you aren't familiar with it, but this is the real thing. If you need something more "chocolatey", you might want to make a chocolate layer cake instead. Yes, doctor up any recipe you find any way you prefer (I do it myself on almost all), but keep in mind this is the original, time-tested, old-fashioned way to make this particular cake.Read more
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Becky Colorado Springs, CO 02-07-2009
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Don't try this at altitude!
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

This is the first time I have checked the comments on a recipe. The way Bobby Deen RAVED about this cake on "Paul's Party" I... thought we were in for a treat but instead it also ran over the pan into my oven. I thought it was because I live at 7,000 feet but it sounds like others had the same problem. I agree it needs more chocolate taste and the time is much too long. Wish they could modify this to make the cake I saw on Paul's show. Love Paula, don't like this cake!Read more