Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This is a lovely moist pound cake I got the recipe from a friend I used to work with. Perfect plain or with fruit or ice cream.

• Ready In: 1 hr 50 mins
• Serves: 20-24

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 cups butter (softened)
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese (softened)
• 3  cups sugar
• 6  large eggs
• 3  cups  sifted cake flour
• 1  teaspoon vanilla flavoring
• 1  teaspoon  almond extract

Directions

1. *note:Please do not be tempted to use low fat anything.
2. The cake will fall and be very gummy.
3. Cream butter and cream cheese for 5 minutes.
4. Slowly add sugar and beat thoroughly.
5. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg.
6. Add flour and flavoring, Mix until well blended.
7. Grease and lightly flour a 10" tube pan and pour batter into pan.
8. Place cake in a cold oven.
9. Bake for 1 1/2 hour at 285 degrees.
10. No matter how tempted DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN DOOR WHILE BAKING!
11. Cool for 20 minutes in pan after removing from oven.