Pound Cake
Pound Cake. Find Out How To Bake Delicious Cakes. This recipe calls for basic ingredients that you most likely have in your pantry. Bake this cake in an angel food or fluted tube cake pan, dust it with powdered sugar and voila, you have a perfect dessert! To make a perfect pound cake from scratch, have all the ingredients prepared and ready and the oven preheated. In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Cook Pound Cake using 8 ingredients and 3 steps quickly.
Ingredients
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It’s 1 lb of butter (softened)
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It’s 2 1/4 cups of sugar (split)
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You need 8 of eggs (split whites and yolks)
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Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla
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It’s 2 tsp of almond extract
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You need 1/3 cup of bourbon/whiskey
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Prepare 3 cups of flour
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Prepare of Your choice of frosting
Steps
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and 2 cups sugar until it’s a light yellow color. Gradually add in egg yolks. Mix in Bourbon, almond extract and vanilla to the mixture. Slowly add in flour..
- In a separate bowl add egg whites and remaining sugar. Beat until stiff peaks. Fold in into batter..
- Pour into a greased angel food cake pan. Cook at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Let cool and frost..
I like to add mini chips! Not only are berries excellent on top of pound cake you can add them to the batter. Use fresh or frozen and thawed! Put in greased and floured "pound cake pan," you know, the one with the funnel in the middle. Put in cold oven, middle rack.