Junior's Pound Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
2 loaf cakes
ingredients
- 3 1⁄4 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup shortening
- 2 cups sugar
- 9 extra large eggs
- 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract
- 3⁄4 cup milk
directions
- Place a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat the oven to 325°.
- Butter 2 loaf pans (9x5x3 x 2 1/4-inch), then line the bottoms with parchment or wax paper.
- Sift the cake flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg together into a medium-size bowl and set aside.
- Cream the butter and shortening in a large bowl with an electric mixer on high until light yellow, about 5 minutes.
- Then, while the mixer is still running, add the sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, beating 1 to 2 minutes after each addition.
- Now add the eggs, one at a time, beating 3 minutes after adding each one.
- Beat the batter until it is light yellow, airy, and starts crawling up the sides of the bowl, a total of about 35 minutes in all. (this is important)
- Beat in the vanilla.
- Sift about one fourth of the flour mixture over the batter and stir it in by hand, then stir in one third of the milk.
- Repeat by adding one-quarter more flour, one third more milk, another one fourth of the flour, then the rest of the milk.
- Finally, stir in the rest of the flour.
- Stir after each addition until the ingredients are well incorporated.
- Gently spoon half of the batter into each loaf pan.
- Set the 2 pans side by side in the oven, making sure they are not touching each other.
- Bake the cakes until the tops are golden and the center of each cake springs back when you touch it lightly and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs (not batter) clinging to it, about 1 hour.
- Let the cakes cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes before removing them from the pans.
- Note: I am assuming that the 35 minutes total beating time includes all additions to the batter as well.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Marie
Fairport, NY
I live in upstate New York. I am retired and now have time to enjoy my children, my grandchildren and great grandchildren.