ISO really good pound cake recipe

[FrugalWitch]

I don't bake from scratch, but Momma gifted me with a 5 quart Kitchen Aid pro-mixer and I'm willing to learn.

Does anyone have a really good old-timey pound cake recipe to share? TIA

[staciah]

This comes from a Shaker Cookbook:

1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Sugar
5 Eggs
1/2 teaspoon rum flavoring
1/4 teaspoon Mace
2 Cups Flour, Sifted

Cream Butter thoroughly, and then cream it some more. Gradually work in the sugar and beat well. After adding each egg, beat again! Add Flavoring and gradually work in the flour. The eggs and the beating furnish the leavening for the cake.Bake for 45 minutes in moderate 350 degree oven.

[FrugalWitch]

So I should use All-Purpose flour? What size pan? Thanks for the recipe!

[staciah]

I would probably use a cake flour or bread flour but I'm not too sure. The recipe didn't say. I would use a regular bread pan.

[Tater]

I get rave reviews every time I take this cake anywhere:

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

3 cups sugar
3 cups cake flour (plain)
6 eggs
3 sticks marg.
1 pkg. (8 oz.) cream cheese
2 teaspoons vanilla

Cream margarine and cream cheese well. (I set it on the counter about 1 hour before so they will soften). Add sugar one cup at a time and beat it well after each cup. Add one egg at a time, beating well after each one. Add vanilla. Beat in flour one cup at a time. Put in bundt pan sprayed with cooking spray, or greased and floured. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

This cake is moist and delicious!! So many pound cakes are dry, but I rarely have any of this cake left when I take it to functions.

[FrugalWitch]

I made the Cream Cheese Pound Cake last night....OMG!!! That is one delicious cake! We could hardly wait for it to cool enough to cut, just out of this world good!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing this recipe. I printed it out and put the copy into one of my favorite cookbooks. Momma and DH are plum tickled that they got a scratch cake, and I'm plum tickled that it was so easy .

[Michelle]

I use all-purpose flour on all recipes except for where it specifies differently (eg cake flour, bread flour, whole wheat flour, etc).

[freyadog]

A question here about cake flour. Will all-purpose flour work if it is sifted a number of times or do you have to use cake flour?

[Iansmommy]

Freyadog,

I would think you should really use cake flour if at all possible. Texture and density will be effected.