Best Nanas Pound Cake Recipes

NANA'S CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease and flour a 10 to 12 cup bundt pan.
• Cream the butter, sugar, and shortening together for about 3 minutes.
• Add the eggs one at a time and beat well.
• Sift the dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add the dry ingredients alternately with milk, being sure to blend well.
• Add vanilla extract; mix well.
• Pour into the prepared pan, being cautious not to overfill the pan, and bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

NANA'S SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition.
• Add flour, salt and vanilla.
• Bake in tube pan at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes.

NANA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2. Mix sugar, butter, and butter flavor Crisco. Mix till lite and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Mix well after each egg is added.
• 3. Sift together flour and baking powder. Add Flour and milk alternating. Add vanilla.
• 4. Spray pound cake or bunt cake pan with cooking spray. Then coat with flour. Pour cake batter in pan . Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 30 mins.

NANA'S SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven 325 cream butter, Crisco, sugar till smooth and pale add eggs one at a time , add flour a little at a time add milk, sour cream and butternut (don't over mix) pour in greased bundt pan bake 1 hour & 5 mins or till golden brown.
• 2. Glaze optional - 2 c powdered sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 3 Tbsp milk; mix well. Pour over cake or dust with powdered sugar.

NANA'S CHOCOLATE CHIP BRANDY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
• Cream the cream cheese and the butter together until light and fluffy.
• Add the sugar and cream well.
• Add the vanilla and the brandy, mixing well.
• Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well each time.
• Sift the flour, cornstarch and baking powder together, and fold in the chocolate chips.
• Add the dry ingredients/chips to the egg/sugar mixture gradually, mixing well after each addition.
• Heavily grease a bundt or a 10 inch tube pan, and pour the cake batter into the pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Reduce the oven heat to 300 degrees and bake for another 1 hour and 20 minutes.

NANA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Cream butter and shortening. Add sugar and cream together. Add eggs one at a time. Mix thoroughly after each egg. Add milk, flour and flavorings. Mix together.
• 2. Set oven at 300 degrees, do not preheat oven. Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes
• 3. You can substitute margine for butter but tastes better with real butter.
• 4. My daughter and Nana always use a bunt pan. A couple of loaf pans would work also.

NANA'S CHRISTMAS POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream the cream cheese and the butter together until light and fluffy.
• Gradually add the sugar and cream well.
• Add the vanilla and brandy (or bourbon), mixing well.
• Add the eggs one at a time,beating well after each addition.
• Set aside 1/4 cup flour.
• Sift the remaining 2 cups flour, cornstarch and baking powder together.
• Gradually add the flour mix to the batter, mixing well.
• Dredge the pecans and candied fruit in the 1/4 cup flour, coating all pieces thoroughly.
• (this keeps them from all sinking to the bottom of the cake as it bakes) Fold the pecans, candied fruit and any flour residue into the cake batter.
• Grease a bundt pan very heavily with Crisco, and sprinkle the 3 tablespoons of sugar evenly in the bottom of the cake pan over the Crisco.
• Pour the cake batter into the bundt pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Then reduce the oven heat to 300 degrees and bake for another 1 hour and 20 minutes.