All Butter Pound Cake
Source: cookpad.com/us/recipes/353951-all-butter-pound-cake
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb (2 sticks) butter
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 3 cup sugar
- 5 eggs
- 3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp fine salt
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 tbsp sugar
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350
- With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together.
- Add sugar a little at a time.
- Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
- Stir dry ingredients together in a separate bowl and add to butter mixture alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour.
- Mix in vanilla.
- Pour batter into greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Whipped cream
- Place a metal mixing bowl in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Remove bowl from freezer.
- Place sugar into the bowl and add the whipping cream.
- Whisk until stiff peaks form.
- Garnish pound cake with a dusting of powdered sugar, whipped cream and fresh strawberries or fruit of choice.