Mama's Pound Cake

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen

Show: Paula's PartyEpisode: Paula to the Rescue

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Cook Time:
1 hr 30 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
16 to 20 servings

Times:

Prep: 15 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 1 hr 30 min
Total:: 1 hr 45 min

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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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Barbara Amarillo, TX 11-10-2009
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Best Poundcake Recipe Ever!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made this exactly as Paula said.....delicious and so easy!
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Regina Lawrenceville, GA 11-06-2009
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HEAVENLY GOOD ~!!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I baked this cake for the first time a few weeks ago and have since baked 3~!!! My daughter baked one last night. The... recipe is very easy to follow and it was very simple to make. My daughter and I made a few changes (you don't have to do this but) we used 2 cups of All Purpose Flour and 1 cup and a 1 tsp of Cake flour and we used 3 sticks of real butter versus the butter and vegetable shortening. The cake was magnificent. THANK YOU SO MUCH for a wonderful recipe. Read more
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Betty hepzibah, GA 11-02-2009
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Just like my grandmother
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

my grandmother had's been cooking pound cake since she was little and my grand is 85 and i'm the only grand child who know... her recipe and you cook your pound cake the same down to a T I love your show, so do my grand thank- you for having a kind heart for the love of cooking.Read more
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Cherie Portland, TN 10-28-2009
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Question if anyone can answer it soon
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

The reviews I have read are pretty postivie. So, I thought about baking this cake to carve into a WWII battleship. Will it... be sturdy enough for this adventure of mine? I won't be using a bunt cake pan. The pan is a 16 X 12. How much does this cake rise? I will probably need to double or triple the recipe.Read more
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peaches pittsburgh, PA 10-22-2009
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"This Was The Bomb"
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I Made this pound cake EVERYONE liked it:)
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Liz Huntsville, AL 10-16-2009
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Incredible
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This is the best pound cake recipe I've ever made. I followed what others had suggested in these posts and used 2 1/2 cups... of sugar instead of three. It was perfect!Read more