Mama's Basic Pound Cake

Recipe Rating:	6 Ratings5
Category:	Cakes
Serves:	16-20

Ingredients

2 stk	butter
1/2 c	criso shortening
3 c	sugar
5	eggs
3 c	all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp	salt
1/2 tsp	baking powder
1 c	milk
1 tsp	vanilla

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Angela Johnson

Lightly Salted

Statesville, NC (pop. 24,532)

abjohnson73

Member Since Apr 2011

Angela's Notes:

This is the best pound cake I have ever put into my mouth. It is so moist! This cake is a great cake for people that is beginning to bake as I am. You can add so much to this cake. Hope everyone enjoys it :)

Directions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each. Sift together dry ingredients and add to mixture alternately with milk, starting with flour and ending with flour. Add vanilla. Pour into greased and floured tube pan or Bundt pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours. Cool for about 10 minutes on a cooling rack, then turn turn onto cake plate.

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Rose Rauhauser NewYorkWoman

May 20, 2011

Sweetheart, this is a basic pound cake, they all start out this way, try some others, girl u don't know what your missing????

Christi D cookiemonsterr

May 20, 2011

I think this pound cake looks delicous, however "basic" it may be. Sometimes the most basic things are the most delicious. I saved this recipe and I plan on adding some lemon extract cuz I love my pound cake to be lemony!