Cream Cheese Pound Cake With Strawberries and Cream
Use my recipe for Strawberry Sauce (recipe #43690) with this recipe. You won't be disappointed. It's a winner! From Southern Living.
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READY IN: 2hrs
YIELD: 1 10inch cake
UNITS: US
INGREDIENTS
Nutrition- 1
- 2tablespoons sugar
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- 2 1⁄2cups sugar
- 6large eggs
- 3cups sifted cake flour
- 1⁄8teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1cup whipping cream
- 3tablespoons sugar
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DIRECTIONS
- Sprinkle sliced strawberries with 2 tablespoons sugar; cover and chill until ready to serve.
- Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add 2 1/2 cups sugar, beating well.
- Add eggs, l at a time, beating until combined.
- Stir in flour by hand just until moistened.
- Stir in salt and vanilla.
- Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.
- Bake at 300° for 1 hour and 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool completely on wire rack.
- Cut into slices.
- Beat whipping cream and 3 tablespoons sugar at high speed with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
- Serve with cake; top with strawberry mixture, and drizzle with Strawberry Syrup.
- Garnish, if desired.
- Note: Great results for this recipe were gotten from using a hand mixer and then stirring the flour in by hand.
- High-powered stand mixers can over beat some pound cakes, giving them a tough texture.
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