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Old Fashioned Pound Cake

This Old Fashioned Pound Cake is a family favorite and a classic. Made with no baking powder or baking soda, it's the real way to make a pound cake.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time1 hour 45 minutes
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American, southern
Keyword: Pound Cake
Servings: 1 cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter softened/room temperature
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 1 pint of heavy whipping cream
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  • Grease and flour one 9 or 10 inch tube or bundt pan or spray pan heavily.
  • Cream butter and sugar with mixer until fluffy.
  • Add eggs, one at a time, and mix well. Add the flour, one cup at a time while adding cream a little at a time until all flour and cream is mixed in well. Add the vanilla flavoring and blend well. 
  • Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 1-1/2 hours or until center springs back from small amount of pressure.

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Notes

Be sure and grease or spray pan heavily and let cake sit and cool for about 12 minutes before removing from pan.