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Ingredients
- 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 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.
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By Miss Tiffany
Norfolk,Virginia
on January 31, 2012
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Sooooooo YummTastic......and I added a half of cup of dark rum and drizzled a caramel rum sauce on top which made this to die for!!!!!
By monkeygirls food
on January 27, 2012
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Love this recipe, it so easy to make and tastes amazing. I used two large bread pans instead of a bunt pan (mine kept sticking. It goes really well with a lemon glaze or by itself.
By romeevans
crawfordville, Ga
on January 25, 2012
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Thanks Paula for helping make a great pound cake on my first try at cooking a pound cake.
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