Best Best Southern Pound Cake Recipes

BEST SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine butter, Crisco, sugar, flour and salt in mixing bowl and beat well with electric mixer.
• Add milk gradually.
• Add eggs, 2 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add baking powder and vanilla and mix well.
• Pour batter in 10" tube pan, bottom of which has been lined with waxed paper and greased.
• Bake 1 hour or until cake tests done.

BEST EVER FIVE FLAVORED SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and Crisco.
• Add 3 cups sugar and cream again (10 minutes - minimum). Beat eggs until lemon color - add to mixture.
• Sift together: flour, baking powder and salt.
• Alternate milk and 1 tsp all flavorings w/sifted dry ingredients. Pour into a greased and floured 10" tube pan.
• Bake 325° for 1 ½ hours or until cake tests done or depending on oven.
• Dissolve glaze ingredients over low heat in a saucepan. Spoon glaze over cake in pan while hot. Let cool in pan. Keep well and it is better after 1st day.
• NOTE: Put out the butter, Crisco and eggs the night before. The key is that everything is room temperature and you beat the butter, sugar and eggs at least the 10 minutes. After that you only beat enough to mix the dry ingredients.

EM'S BEST SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Cut butter into small pieces and cream with the sugar. Add the ten eggs, beaten slightly, a little at a time. Add the vanilla extract. (Substitute vanilla with almond, if you like.)
• 2. Add the salt to the flour. using a sturdy mixer, add the cake flour to the wet mixture. Prepare your separating tube pan with Crisco/flour or baking spray which is cleaner. (Be liberal in preparing the pan.)Lump the thick batter evenly into the pan.
• 3. Use real butter; use pure vanilla extract. I keep these ingredients on hand all the time. These are key to the flavor of the cake!
• 4. Place the pan in the center of the oven. Cook at 325 F. for approx. 1 1/2 hours. Do not overcook, or the cake will be dry.
• 5. **After drizzling the glaze on the hot cake, use a thin metal spatula and separate the cake gently around the circumference, allowing the glaze the flow down the outside of the cake. Let it sit a few minutes. **Don't stick holes into the cake for the glaze; the cake won't look 'pretty' when you slice it.
• 6. To remove the tube with the heavy cake, I use a large wooden spoon through the tube. Carefully loosen the bottom of the cake and turn the cake over on your hand. Avoid up-ending the cake on a plate, as the top need to look "pretty" as well. Have a plate or Tupperware cake box ready for the bottom of the cake to rest on.