How to Make: The South's Best Chocolate Pound Cake

This chocolate pound cake compares to none other! It was one of the first recipes featured on our New South Table blog in 2017 and for good reason....it is famous around here! This cake is loaded with chocolate syrup, so it is decadent, dense and ever so moist.
This recipe was originally submitted by Mrs. P. Tarlton and Mrs. L. Watson in the Our Country Kitchen Favorites Cookbook from Deep Creek Baptist Church in 1983.
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Ingredients:
2 sticks margarine (I use Land O Lakes)
2/3 cup shortening
3 cups all purpose flour
3 cups sugar
6 medium eggs
1 cup evaporated milk
1 large can Hershey's syrup
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
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[@npk200Cola]

This looks incredible.

[@susanhurst3292]

I will make this for Mother's Day!!!! Thanks for the recipe.

[@peach3611]

Wow,looks delicious 😋 I want a slice. It’s cold her in Michigan and I think tomorrow I will warm my kitchen up by making this delicious chocolate pound cake. Look like you had 2 cakes in the oven, twins😂😂💕 thanks for sharing. Be safe.

[@newsouthtable1705]

Thank you so much! Stay warm!

[@sinerhqbeckiyz7924]

amazing

[@christinesikes2263]

I will be making this real soon

[@carolynlanier5410]

Look very simple to make.

[@andrebranch8275]

Nice cake must try it

[@newsouthtable1705]

Thank you! :)

[@frenzettawilson2767]

No measurements in your post, I’d really like to make this cake

[@isaacdehart7361]

Hey Alyssa! I’m baking this for my dad for Father’s Day because his mom use to make it for us when he was a youngin’! I’m curious as to the measurements for everything and what type of chocolate syrup you used? Thanks!

[@imeldasantana1652]

Thank you for sharing the recipe 👏👏. I’m curious why you are using shortening and margarine instead of butter.

[@newsouthtable1705]

Hi there! I have tried it with butter, but it comes out dry. Thank you for watching!

[@isaacdehart7361]

How much sugar ? What type of sugar ? What type of chocolate syrup ?

[@jackiecooper967]

Hi Can you use BUTTER instead of margarine.

[@newsouthtable1705]

Hi Jackie! You may use butter; however, I have found that margarine works best to create the moist texture in this cake. Have a great day and thanks for watching our video!

[@lauratrahan3020]

Don’t use margarine ever

[@Allenmassageguy]

Use margarine. Butter in pound cakes makes them very dry unless u add 1/2 of shortening. Try it. You will like it 😂😂😂

[@lauratrahan3020]

@@Allenmassageguy I won’t have a stick of margarine in my house, haven’t in over 50 years. My pound cake are never dry because I cream for eight minutes. Just my way and each their own!!

[@jointcerulean3350]

What about a mud cake made of real mud?🗿👍🔥 Healthy Stronk!👌🦠🌴 And also ginkgo palm oil with with sea weed and swamp water with algae and duckweed 🦀 HEALTHY 1000000%

[@robertknight4672]

​@@lauratrahan3020I've never made a pound cake with margarine. Butter ones I've made of come out good and I find the ones that have sour cream in them have a little more moisture. The Fannie Farmer playing pound cake recipe and the only dary in that cake is butter. I find is not overly moist and it's not Overly Dry either. That recipe is made with cake flour so that can help.