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Showing posts with label National Pound Cake Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Pound Cake Day. Show all posts

Monday, March 4, 2013

Today's Reason to Celebrate

Need a reason to celebrate? Today is National Pound Cake Day!

Yippee!

Who doesn't love a moist, buttery pound cake to sink your teeth into?

One of the best recipes I have found is from Paula Deen, from the Food Network.


Mama's Pound Cake

photo courtesy food network
Ingredients
1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
1/2 cup vegetable shortening (CRISCO works great)
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
1/2 teaspoon fine salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

The Midwest is in for another snowstorm tomorrow. I might just have to stay in and bake!