125 YEAR OLD POUND CAKE

125 YEAR OLD POUND CAKE image

Categories Cake Egg

Number Of Ingredients 4

3 cups all-purpose flour, divided use
1 cup black walnuts, chopped fine
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup cream

Steps:

125-Year-Old Walnut Pound Cake Ingredients 1/2 pound butter, at room temperature 1/2 cup shortening 3 cups sugar 5 eggs, at room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream butter and shortening. Add sugar, beat well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Add flavoring and beat. Mix 1/4 cup flour with the nuts. Mix baking powder into the remaining flour and add to the wet mixture alternately with cream, starting and ending with flour. Fold in nuts. Bake in a large greased and floured tube pan for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Do not open oven during the first hour of baking.