Mama's Pound Cake

Name: Mama's Pound Cake
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

9 ingredients

7 steps

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

1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2

With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together.
3

Add sugar, a little at a time.
4

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
5

Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour.
6

Mix in vanilla.
7

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.