When I first started cooking in Granny’s kitchen one of my favorite cookbooks to use was Cook and Love It – A Collection of Favorite Recipes and Entertaining Ideas Atlanta Georgia. It is a community type cookbook with recipes attributed to the person or persons who submitted them.
Granny was gifted the cookbook when Pap was in Crawford and Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia for his triple-bypass heart surgery. She never used it much, but I loved to flip through it and try different recipes. Once I was married she told me I ought to take it home with me.
Not long after Matt and I were married I tried a chocolate pound cake recipe from the cookbook. We just loved it and I made it all the time until somewhere along the way I quit making it.
I’ve recently started making the cake again and wanted to share it with you.
Chocolate Pound Cake
- 2 sticks butter
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1.5 cups Hershey’s chocolate syrup (the original recipe called for a 16 ounce can of Hershey’s syrup, but I can no longer find it in my grocery store)
- 2.5 cups cake flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup buttermilk
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 Hershey chocolate bar
- a little milk
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Add chocolate syrup. Add flour (salt added to flour) and buttermilk (soda added to buttermilk) alternately. Last mix in melted Hershey bar (melted with a little milk) and vanilla. Bake in preheated 325 degree oven for about 60 minutes or till done in greased and floured tube pan. The original recipe says one hour and 30 minutes, but it’s never taken that long in my oven.
Mrs. Robert Richardson (Mary Anne)
Anne Wattles Constantine
If you try the pound cake I hope you enjoy it as much as we do. The flavor is great and the texture of the cake is wonderful too—very soft and light.
Last night’s video: The First Big Bean Picking – It Was A Good One!
Tipper
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Wish I had seen this sooner. My birthday is July13th. I sure would have made this for my birthday cake. I am going to make this Friday. It sure looks good.
I hope you had a good birthday! And I hope you enjoy the cake 🙂
That was the best chocolate cake ever. I will definitely be making again. Thank you for your program. It is so nice to watch a wholesome and family oriented show.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
This looks delicious and I plan to try making one soon. I made Tipper’s Blueberry Pie yesterday and we had our first slices today. Oh my. It truly is a great recipe. I made it once last year during blueberry season, but I expect to make it more than once this year. So very good!
This looks delicious and I plan to try making one soon. I made Tipper’s Blueberry Pie yesterday and we had our first slices today. Oh my. It truly is a great recipe. I made it once last year during blueberry season, but I expect to make it more than once this year. So very good!
That looks so delicious, Tipper! I have never made a chocolate pound cake. I went to a funeral in March of a very close family friend who passed away. She was born in 1937 in Greensboro, NC and was a southern belle through and through. She transplanted up here to marry her husband. Every time we went to her house as kids she had something delicious to eat, and very often pound cake! There were so many warm stories shared about her at the funeral that revolved around her love of gardening and her food ways. They actually served four different kinds of poundcake at her funeral, all homemade. My favorite was one called “Millionaire pound cake.” They also had her favorite (most often made) poundcake recipe on the funeral program copied in her own handwriting. I agree with what others have shared in that everything you’ve ever posted that I have made is truly delicious! Thank you for sharing so many wonderful recipes with us. 🙂
I remember making this cake when the recipe first came out, but I hadn’t thought about it in years. We really liked it and I’d like to make it again. Thanks for posting the recipe!
Definitely must try this one out when the weather cools off a bit. I’m partial to a pound cake.
This chocolate pound cakes sounds so delicious. I definitely have to wait till the kids are all here to make it so I don’t eat it all. Yesterday, we drove to see our daughter to celebrate her birthday. My oldest granddaughter and I made your recipe for chocolate no bake cookies for her. They are her favorite! I was at her house without a recipe, and it was so easy to look it up on the Blind Pig website. Thank you for all the great recipes you give us. Every one I try is delicious!
I remember a similar recipe and have no idea where it is now, so I am glad to have this one. I plan to make it later this week!!!! I remember liking a cake with hershey’s syrup in it very much. How could a chocolate cake go wrong with hershey’s? 🙂 Norman, I hope your dental office has your preauthorization coded correctly and Georgia Medicaid will approve your extractions quickly. Praying the dental office and Medicaid get everything coordinated for you and you find relief from this pain, suffering and frustration from waiting so long, as fast as possible.
This reminds me of the chocolate pound cake my mother-in-law made. Looks delicious!
My mom made this cake, but I don’t remember the chocolate bar. Thanks for sharing.
I’m the odd ball, I do not like chocolate cake, ice cream or many other things chocolate. I do like chocolate milk. I had rather have a juicy cobbler pie than any cake. About the only cake I really like is a plain pound cake or a raisin pound cake.
I’m an odder ball, I don’t eat any kind of cake. I do like a good cake of cornbread, without sugar of course.
I do eat ice cream to keep my weight up so the doctor don’t try to convince me to drink Ensure.
Ammons, I like strawberry or black cherry ice cream, just not chocolate. My doctor told me I needed to eat more fruit so I started eating a lot more fruit pies! Somebody told me eating pies was not what the doctor had in mind. I was brought some Ensure when I was in the hospital a few years ago, I tried drinking it, it sure ain’t like drinking an old fashioned soda fountain milkshake!
A nice slice of that chocolate pound cake and a good cup of coffee would make a fine snack.
This sounds like a good cake to bake when it’s a bit cooler outside. I believe it’s also calling for some ice cream to go with it!!
Good morning Tipper and Acorns. Your Pound Cake looks delicious. Such an easy recipe too. It is sweet to know you were baking it as a newlywed. I keep everyone here, Papaw Tony and the folks up Wilson Holler in my prayers. Please keep Ed and me in your prayers. May we all be blessed. Love ya.
Your cake looks scrumptious! Thank you for sharing the recipe with us.
Thank you for this recipe! It looks delicious!!
That cake looks like it should be entered in a state fair contest. You know I’m definitely going to make it, as I have about every dessert you have ever posted on here. I’ll have to make it on a day when I’m expecting company, or I might eat the whole thing myself.
Never baked a chocolate pound cake but yours really looks good! I enjoyed your green bean picking and conversation with Matt:) My dear Mother was the Queen of cooking green beans and canning green beans. Mother and Daddy worked as a team like you and Matt, growing a garden and putting up food. I always wondered why the girls didn’t call Paul Uncle Paul except when they were on stage and giving their names. He is such a special Uncle. When I refer to any of my Mother’s or Daddy’s brother’s I have always said Uncle when I was talking to them or about them:) My parents grew up in NE MS and oh I was always so excited to get down south and play with my cousins. One year when my Daddy had a health problem and a R.N., was coming to the house to check on him, somehow the conversation led to his father’s house near town. The nurse said do you mean Uncle John was your daddy. She said oh as kids we loved to stop and see Aunt Ivy and Uncle John. The nurse was not related to Aunt Ivy and Uncle John, but in the south youth were taught to call older people they knew as Uncle and Aunt out of respect just as you and Matt mentioned. My grandparents loved children so I’m sure they loved having visits from them. Praying for you Norman and Papaw Tony.
Dee, I’m from the south and called some of my close by neighbors aunt and uncle. I loved them all but Aunt Mattie and her husband Uncle Jack were mighty special to me. I think I was closer to them than some of my true aunts and uncles. Both have been dead for many years but I still call them aunt and uncle if I talk about them.
thank you Dee, God bless you very much
This cake sounds so yummy! I love chocolate.
I’d forgotten all about Hershey’s Syrup in a can!!
sounds wonderful
Now that IS a chocolate cake!!! I’ll make it soon.
Wishing everyone a Blessed, Wonderful Week.
I just baked a Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake this past Saturday and everyone gobbled it up even though they said they didnt like lemon. I also make a Cream Cheese Pound Cake but I’ve never made a chocolate one. The picture above looks like it would be delicious. I’ll have to try your recipe, Tipper.
The recipe sounds really good! I’ve never made a chocolate pound cake or had one before, so this will have to be tried out. I’ve made vanilla, butter and poppyseed pound cakes and they were all great. Thank you for sharing it!
Prayers for you Norman, that you get your teeth taken care of and all of the insurance comes through as it should.
I have a good chocolate pound cake recipe but I will try this one. It sounds good.
Now I’ll go watch your picking green beans video. That first mess of green beans will be so good.. Nothing like fresh out of the garden.
Y’all have a blessed day!
God bless Papa Tony, in Jesus name, heal his body Lord, bless him with deliverance from sickness and disease, in Jesus name, Amen . Georgia Medicaid supposed to get back to me, let me know what decision they and the dentist have made about where I can go and get my teeth pulled, I’ve been waiting and waiting, God help in Jesus name
I’m praying they get it straightened out Norman and for you!
thank you very much