Cream Cheese Pound Cake With Strawberries and Cream

Submitted by Bev I Am

"Use my recipe for Strawberry Sauce (recipe #43690) with this recipe. You won't be disappointed. It's a winner! From Southern Living."

 

• Ready In: 2hrs
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 1 10inch cake

ingredients

• 1 (16 ounce) container fresh strawberries, sliced
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 2 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 6 large eggs
• 3 cups sifted cake flour
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 3 tablespoons sugar
• strawberry syrup (see recipe I posted Strawberry Orange Juice Sauce)
• 1 whole fresh strawberries, garnish

directions

1. Sprinkle sliced strawberries with 2 tablespoons sugar; cover and chill until ready to serve.
2. Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add 2 1/2 cups sugar, beating well.
3. Add eggs, l at a time, beating until combined.
4. Stir in flour by hand just until moistened.
5. Stir in salt and vanilla.
6. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.
7. Bake at 300° for 1 hour and 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
8. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool completely on wire rack.
9. Cut into slices.
10. Beat whipping cream and 3 tablespoons sugar at high speed with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
11. Serve with cake; top with strawberry mixture, and drizzle with Strawberry Syrup.
12. Garnish, if desired.
13. Note: Great results for this recipe were gotten from using a hand mixer and then stirring the flour in by hand.
14. High-powered stand mixers can over beat some pound cakes, giving them a tough texture.

Reviews

[MooseCall]

Wow Bev, this is yummy! My aunt brought me strawberry picking over the weekend and I made her this cake as a thank-you gift. She loved it! The cake was moist and smells SOOoo GOOD when baking! I bake about twice a year and never with much success, but this was really easy. Actually I don't even have an eletric mixer, but with the help of BF, the result was still good. Midway through baking I found the cake was already browned but the cake's not done yet (must be because I have small oven), so I cover the pan with aluminum foil and continue baking. It wasn't a problem. I omitted the syrup because I don't have it and becuase the strawberries were already very sweet. Thank you again for this great recipe, I am so glad my aunt loved it! :D!!

 

[dsharp90]

"Strawberry Syrup" refers to another Southern Living recipe in the same issue (April 2002). Definitely not the milk flavoring! Great recipe!

 

[cupcake1028]

This is just a clarification note - some people seem to be confused about the syrup listed at the end of the instructions. I think this refers to the sweetened strawberry juice that collects in the bowl with the berries, not that neon pink milk-flavouring junk you buy in the grocery store.

 

[debhernandez]

the best

 

[Yoli2919]

Delicious, my family and I loved it! I had never made a pound cake before and did not realize how long it took to bake so we had a late nite snak when it finally came out of the oven at 9:30 pm. Will definetly make this cake again. Perfect, not too sweet and just the right texture to it. Loved it!!!