Who doesn’t love a good piece of cake?
I have so many recipe books for cakes (my favorite right now is Martha Stewarts Cakes) and thankfully I have daughters who love to bake almost as much as I do. If someone in this house isn’t making cookies then they’re making a cake.
hmmm….cake…
Many of you know by now, I love cake. In any shape or size (bigger the better but I’m ok with mini’s since it means I can enjoy more of them without the guilt). One cake that I especially love is pound cake. When I say love…I mean love. It’s very hard for me to pass up a good piece of pound cake so a special thanks to one of my readers in my Steena’s Secret Society on Facebook – Cathy Contino – for sharing her recipe for an Old Fashioned Pound Cake!
Do you have a recipe you’d like to share? I’d love to feature it here!
- For the Cake:
- 1 lb of butter
- 3 C sugar
- 10 eggs
- 4 C flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla or other flavoring
- greased and floured tube pan
- For the Icing:
- ½ stick of butter
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla
- 4 oz Philadelphia cream cheese
- 10X sugar maybe half a box (until desired consistency)
- For the Cake:
- Have butter and eggs at room temperature. Cream butter well. Add sugar gradually, and cream together. Add eggs one at a time. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Add gradually to mixture. Add vanilla/ Cook in preheated 300 ° for 1 hour 20 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes.
- Try sticking knife in at 1 hour 20 minutes if it comes out clean its done, if not continue another 10 minutes.
- For the Icing:
- Cream together, butter, cream cheese and vanilla until completely blended.
- Add 10 x sugar until desired consistency.
- Spread on thin
Thank you for the Pound Cake recipe. I am really looking forward to baking one. Can you tell me what 300 degrees equates to in celsuus on my oven ascI usually cook cakes at 180?