Pound Cake(Lemon or Plain)
By
Tina Murphey
@TMurphey
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Ingredients
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3 stickbutter(land of lakes, salted) @ room temperature
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3 csugar
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6 largeeggs
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3 1/2 cplain flour
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1/2 tspbaking powder
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1 cmilk
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1/2 tspvanilla extract(you can use 1 tsp and leave off the lemon if you prefer to have plain pound cake)
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1/2 tsplemon extract
How to Make Pound Cake(Lemon or Plain)
- Pre-heat oven to 325
Grease a tube pan and line the bottom with wax paper.(Do not grease the top of the wax paper) - Sift flour & baking powder together and set aside.
Measure and mix milk with flavoring(s) - Cream Butter and sugar.
Beat in eggs one at a time.
Add Flour mixture and milk mixture alternating.
Mix batter well. - Pour batter into the tube pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours or until golden brown and toothpick inserted comes out dry.
- Allow to cool for about 15 minutes then run a butter knife or long thin spatula between the cake pan and the cake.
Remove cake from tube pan by inverting the entire pan with cake onto a big round plate.
Remove the tube and wax paper from the bottom of the cake.
Carefully place a cake plate onto the bottom of the cake and reverse the cake back up to rest on the cake plate.