Chocolate Buttermilk Pound Cake

Ingredients:

1 cup plain flour

¼  cup whole wheat flour

½  tsp baking powder

¼  cup cocoa powder {I heaped it}

¼  tsp baking soda

¼  tsp salt

½  cup unsalted butter, room temperature

1 ¼  cup  sugar

2 eggs

100ml buttermilk

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

 

Method:

Grease and flour the sides of a 8″ ring tin, or a 6″ round tin.

Preheat the oven to 170C.

Sift the flour with the cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Cream the butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, followed by the vanilla extract.

With beater on low add the flour and buttermilk alternately in three lots.

Bake for 50-60 minutes till golden brown on top, and the tester comes out clean.

Latha