Pound cake
@margieanneart (26423)
United States
February 26, 2007 6:44pm CST
1 cup butter
4 eggs
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
Bring butter and eggs to room temperature. Grease and flour a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan. Stir together flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg. In a large mixer bowl beat the butter on med. speed of electric mixer about 30 seconds. Gradually add sugar, beating 6 minutes or till fluffy. Add vanilla. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating 1 minute after each, scrape bowl frequently. Gradually add dry ing. to egg mixture, beating on low speed just till thoroughly blended. Turn batter into pan. Bake in a 325* oven for 55 to 65 minutes or till done. Cool 15 min. on a wire rack. Remove from the pan. It will make 12 servings. Now, this is a hint. If you have pound cake that gets stale, toast it, and put some cool whip on, it's very good that way. You can also add syrup of any flavor to it.
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@Bee1955 (3882)
• United States
1 Mar 07
Bee's Hot Milk Sponge Cake
Preheat oven to 350F (gas mark 2 or approx 175C)
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 teas vanilla extract
1 1/2 baking powder
1/4 lb (one stick) butter or margarine
1 cup milk
Directions:
In saucepan on stove or in microwave bowl heat milk and butter until it melts. Do not overcook! Set aside.
In large bowl, put in flour, baking powder, vanilla and sugar and mix well with large spoon, adding one egg at a time as you stir.
Add hot milk mixture a little at a time and keep stirring well. Not all the lumps will come out, but do the best you can.
Grease a bundt pan, or tube pan, or 2 cake pans, or 2 loaf pans and fill them. Bake for 50 minutes - DO NOT OPEN OVEN BEFORE THEN,
Use a knife or straw to test center. If clean, take cake out, if damp, add 15 more minutes baking and teat again.
Cool in pan for 10 minutes then remove.
Frost or cover with powder sugar or eat plain -warm or cold with milk!
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@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
27 Feb 07
I have collected over the years, and altered slightly here and there.
@Willowlady (10657)
• United States
27 Feb 07
Pound cake is versatile enough to lend itself to make different deserts. I like it very much on its own or even worse with whipped cream. Fortunately I do not get it very often. Too rich. Good use of the dairy if that is the kind of farm you have though. Thanks for sharing this one.
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@asfi123 (951)
• India
27 Feb 07
thanks for the wonderful recipe here is my favourite recipe
7-up Pound Cake
1 1/2 cups butter or margarine
3 cups sugar
5 eggs, at room temperature
3 cups cake flour
1 tablespoon lemon flavoring
3/4 cup 7-Up soda
Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time beating after each one. Add flour alternating with= 7-Up stir in lemon flavoring.
Bake in a greased and floured tube pan at 300 degrees until set (about 1 hour).
hope you liked it
@villageanne (8553)
• United States
27 Feb 07
I love pound cake. It is so plain yet so tasty without being too sweet or boring. I love putting stawberries and whip cream on it. I am not allowed to have strawberries now and I will miss them dearly.
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
27 Feb 07
I just try to print this I ran out of ink while I was printed it, I will print it out tommorrow when I get to the office.
@princessmelokia (513)
• Canada
27 Feb 07
this looks like a really good recipe. thanks for sharing it.
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@soulkeeper16 (1814)
• India
14 Jan 08
I like to cut thick slices of the cake and surround with strawberries and raspberries that have been tossed with vanilla syrup. If you are serving the cake with fruit, you can delete the icing and serve the slices natural or dusted with confectioner's suger













