  Chocolate Pound Cake From urlLink The Church Ladies' Divine Desserts book, which you should go buy because you wish you cooked like a southern baptist black woman.
(Reprinted completely without permission, but really, go buy that book. ) 2 sticks butter 1/2 cup shortening 3 cups sugar 5 large eggs 6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder pinch of salt 1 cup whole milk 1 tablespoon vanilla powdered sugar Preheat the oven to 325. Cream together the butter, shortening, sugar and eggs in a gigantic mixing bowl. Seriously, find a really big one, you'll thank me for this later. Use an electric mixer and beat until creamy. In a small bowl, combine the milk and vanilla. In a medium bowl, sift together the cocoa, flour, baking powder and salt. Add a third of the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, beating with the mixer until combined. Add a third of the milk mixture to the butter mixture. Beat well. Keep alternating the flour and milk mixture to the batter until it's all combined.
Grease and flour a large Bundt pan. Pour in the batter. Bake 1 hour, 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool slightly, remove from pan. Sift powdered sugar over the cake. Serve to your rich granny and she'll die happy and leave you all her money. I'm baking this cake right now, and after licking the batter off my finger, I think I came a little. I'm not joking. xo styro. 
