Baba's Pound Cake

Name: Baba's Pound Cake
Ingredients: 1 lb butter; 8 ounces cream cheese; 3 cups sugar; 6 eggs; 3 cups cake flour; 1 teaspoon vanilla or 1 teaspoon lemon flavoring or 1 teaspoon coconut flavoring; 1 dash salt

7 ingredients

9 steps

Ingredients

1 lb butter
8 ounces cream cheese
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon vanilla or 1 teaspoon lemon flavoring or 1 teaspoon coconut flavoring
1 dash salt

Directions

1

Cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy.
2

Add the eggs two at a time with the flour, flavoring and salt.
3

Mix well.
4

If adding cherries, nuts, chips or coconut be sure to toss them with a tablespoonful of flour to keep them from sinking to the bottom of the cake while baking.
5

Bake in a pre-heated 250F oven for 1 hour.
6

Increase the temperature to 300F and bake for an additional 45 minutes.
7

Cool 20 minutes in the pan and then remove to finish cooling on a rack.
8

To serve you can either dust with powdered sugar or top with a glaze of your choice.
9

We like a lemon glaze or a cream cheese based glaze on ours!