Old fashioned pound cake
Old fashioned pound cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 pound butter
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 9 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 16 ounces Philadelphia cream cheese
- Lemon curd sauce:
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup, 1 1/2 sticks, butter
- Juice of 6 lemons
- 6 eggs, beaten
Recipe method:
- Soften butter and cream cheese at room temperature.
- Mix flour and salt together.
- Cream butter and cream cheese together very thoroughly.
- Add sugar, a little at a time, continuing beating. Scrape bowl often.
- After all of the sugar has been added, beat 1 minute on high speed.
- Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
- After all eggs have been added, beat for 1 minute.
- Add vanilla extract.
- Add dry mixture, a little at a time and mix on low speed only until flour mixture has been just incorporated.
- Pour batter at once with no further beating into 2 loaf pans, with heavily greased wax paper.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 325 degrees F for 1 hour, or until cake has drawn away from sides of pans.
- Let pans stand on rack for 20 minutes, turn out cakes carefully to finish cooling.
- This cake is better if made at least 24 hours ahead and stored in a covered container.
- This cake freezes well.
- Lemon curd sauce:
- In a saucepan, over medium heat, stir together sugar, butter and lemon juice.
- Add the eggs and continue stirring until sauce has thickened and is boiling softly.
- You might want to make this in a double boiler.
- Care must be taken when adding the eggs, not to make scrambled ones.
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