Southern Cream Cheese Pound Cake - Old Fashioned Recipe!
Southern Cream Cheese Pound Cake is an old-fashioned recipe that yields a big, beautiful moist cake for special occasions like Valentine's Day or any time of year!
Servings: 16 servings
Cost: $0.52
Equipment
- stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment or an electric handheld mixer
- 12-cup Bundt pan or 10-inch tube pan
- pastry brush (if using butter to grease cake pan)
Ingredients
Ingredients For Southern Cream Cheese Pound Cake - Old Fashioned Recipe!
- vegetable shortening for greasing pan; may substitute 1 tablespoon unsalted butter melted
- 1 ½ cups unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 6 large eggs
- 3 cups + 1 tablespoon bleached cake flour sifted; I am using Swans Down
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
The Method
- Preheat oven to 300°F. Generously coat a 10-inch tube pan with shortening and dust with flour. Alternatively, melt 1 tablespoon unsalted butter and use a pastry brush to 'paint' the butter up the sides, the bottom, and the tube (and dust with flour). Beat butter and cream cheese with a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium speed until smooth, about 30 seconds. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs; beat until just blended, about 30 seconds. Add flour; beat until smooth, about 30 seconds. Stir in vanilla.
- Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan or tube pan. Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour, 45 minutes. Cool in pan 20 minutes. Remove from pan, and let cool completely on a wire rack, about 2 hours. Because of the high sugar content of this cake, it will develop a delicious, crunchy crust on top, that may separate from the cake as it cools.
Nutrition
Serving: 1slice | Calories: 490kcal | Carbohydrates: 71g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 116mg | Sodium: 30mg | Potassium: 78mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 38g | Vitamin A: 635IU | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 1mg