Awesome Pound Cake Food

AWESOME POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
• Take your standard tube cake pan and oil it with butter. Then lightly flour the oiled pan. Shake the excess flour from the pan and put to the side.
• Sift the flour, baking soda,and baking powder into a large mixing bowl.
• Stir in salt and the sugar.
• Add the butter. Melt the butter in a pan over slow heat to make it blend easier. (You can do this or just let the butter soften at room temperature.).
• Add the eggs. At this point I break out my mixer and begin mixing on slow.
• Slowly add buttermilk, and then the vanilla extract. After it is thoroughly stirred, I turn the mixer up to medium for a few minutes, and then finally on high. If the mixture is a little thick I add just a touch more buttermilk.
• Pour the mix in, and bake the cake for about 1 hour and twenty minutes.
• Allow the cake to cool 15 or 20 minutes in the pan before removing.

AWESOME CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• CREAM TOGETHER CREAM CHEESE, MARGARINE, & SUGAR. ADD 6 EGGS (1 AT A TIME). ADD VANILLA. SIFT TOGETHER FLOUR & SELF-RISING FLOUR & ADD.
• BAKE AT 325 DEGREES IN TUBE PAN APPROX 1 1/2 HOURS.
• FOR LAYERS, BAKE AT 350 APPROX 30 minutes.

EASY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a 900g loaf tin with parchment paper (mine was 19cm x 9cm x 6cm). Put all of the ingredients except those for the icing into a large bowl and beat together, either using an electric hand whisk or a wooden spoon until smooth and combined. Pour the mix into the loaf tin and spread evenly with the back of spoon. Bake for 40 - 45 mins.
• Once out of the oven, leave to cool and make the icing. Combine the icing sugar and vanilla paste with three tbsp of water - you may need more but add it gradually to get a thick icing. Spread it over the top of the cake; it's fine if it drips down the edges. Allow to set and then slice.