mounds pound cake

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LAUREL SPRINGS, NC
Updated on Dec 17, 2018

After making a coconut cream cheese pound cake, I felt it was missing something, so after a little experimenting I added some more ingredients and the dark cocoa and came up with the closest thing to a mounds candy bar in a pound cake. Hope you enjoy this as much as everyone that has tried it has, so instead of keeping this to myself, here it is for all to try and share.

prep time 20 Min
cook time 1 Hr 30 Min
method Bake
yield Approximately 16

Ingredients

  • 3 cups plain flour
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 6 - large eggs(room temperature)
  • 8 ounces cream cheese(room temperature)
  • 1/2 cup margarine (room temperature)
  • 1/2 cup crisco
  • 2 teaspoons coconut flavoring
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup hershey special dark cocoa
  • 7 ounces sweetened coconut flakes

How To Make mounds pound cake

  • Step 1
    Mix flour, sugar and cocoa, baking soda and salt.
  • Step 2
    Add butter, crisco, cream cheese, eggs , coconut flavoring and vanilla, mix until well blended.
  • Step 3
    Add coconut , mix well. Pour into a 10" tube pan sprayed with bakers joy .
  • Step 4
    Place into preheated 325 degree oven for approximately 1hour 30 minutes to 1 hour 40 minutes according to your elevation, always check at about an 1hour and 30 minutes with a toothpick inserted into cake until it comes out clean, let.cool remove from pan and flip over to show top of cake, enjoy.

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Category: Cakes
Method: Bake
Culture: Southern
Ingredient: Flour

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