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Nanny’s Pound Cake


Description

A delicious vanilla pound cake. Forget icing. It stands alone.


Ingredients

Scale
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup Crisco shortening
  • 6 eggs at room temperature
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla (I used Mexican)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
  2. Grease and flour a tube or bundt pan.
  3. In a large bowl or stand mixer bowl, cream butter, Crisco and sugar.
  4. Add eggs, one at a time, incorporating fully after each one.
  5. Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
  6. Alternate adding 1/4 of the dry ingredients, followed by 1/4 of the milk.
  7. After fully mixed, add vanilla.
  8. Bake for 80 minutes or until edges start to pull away from pan.
  9. Cool for at least 15 minutes before removing from pan.

Notes

My cake over-flowed in the bundt pan, so next time I will use a tube pan or not fill with all of the batter.