Vanilla Pound Cake Recipe
Serves 1210 mins prep75 mins cook
Vanilla Pound Cake is an easy traditional pound cake recipe with a fluffy moist texture and lovely soft vanilla flavor. Easy Old Fashioned Pound Cake!
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What you need
cup cake flour
tsp baking powder
tsp kosher salt
tbsp unsalted butter
cup granulated sugar
cup shortening
cup full fat milk
tbsp vanilla extract
Instructions
1 Preheat Oven to 325 F (162 C), then grease and flour a tube pan. ( 10x4 inch, 16 Cup Angel Food Cake Tube Pan) 2 Using a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. 3 In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with paddle attachment on medium speed cream together butter and sugar until fluffy. (2-3 minutes.) 4 Add in shortening, mix until smooth. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl as needed. 5 Next, add one egg at a time, mixing until incorporated. 6 Then, pour in milk alternating with spooning in flour mixture until a cake batter is formed. (alternating prevents curdling) 7 Mix in vanilla. 8 Spoon cake batter into prepared cake pan. Give the pan a slight bang on the counter to level batter. 9 Bake on middle lowest rack for 1 hr and 15 minutes. Edges of cake will be golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the cake will come out with only moist crumbs not a wet batter. 10 Once cake is baked, let it cool on a rack for ten minutes. Then using oven mitts invert the cake pan onto cooling rack and allow it to drop. 11 Let the cake cool completely before decorating with frosting and berries.View original recipe