Nannys Cream Cheese Pound Cake Food

VANILLA CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Spray two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch metal loaf pans with the baking spray and sprinkle the insides of the pans with the demerara sugar, tilting the pans to cover evenly.
• Place the butter, cream cheese, and granulated sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat on medium speed for 2 1/2 to 3 minutes, until light and creamy. Scrape down the bowl with a rubber spatula to be sure it's well mixed. With the mixer on low, add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well and scraping down the bowl before adding the next egg. Mix in the vanilla extract and vanilla seeds.
• Combine the cake flour and salt in a medium bowl. With the mixer on low, slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, scraping down the bowl and beater with a rubber spatula. Mix the batter with the spatula to be sure it's well mixed. Divide the batter evenly between the two loaf pans, smooth the tops, and bake in the center of the oven for 60 to 70 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of each cake comes out clean.
• Allow the cakes to cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then carefully turn them out and cool completely on a baking rack.

CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Butter and flour a 12-cup bundt pan.
• Beat cream cheese, butter, sugar and salt in large bowl until smooth.
• Add eggs, one at a time, alternately with flour, stirring well after each addition.
• Blend in vanilla and extract of your choosing.
• Pour into pan.
• Bake 30 minutes.
• Reduce oven temperature to 320 degrees F and bake about another 45 minutes.
• Cool in pan before turning out.

CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed with electric mixer.
• Add cream cheese, beating well until light and fluffy.
• Alternately add flour and eggs, beginning and ending with the flour. Stir in vanilla.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube/bundt pan. Bake at 325º for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool completely on a wire rack.

AUNT PAULA'S CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Instructions for cake:
• Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Cream margarine, butter, and cream cheese, with sugar until fluffy and well combined. Add salt and vanilla, and mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour and mix well. Pour batter into pan. Place in a cold oven and bake at for 1 1/2 hours, or until done. Check doneness by inserting a toothpick in the center; if it comes out clean, it's ready. Cool in pan, then turn out and slice into half-inch-thick slices. Preheat grill pan to medium heat. Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter and brush lightly on both sides of cake slices. Grill cake slices, turning once, until lightly grill-marked and slightly softened, about 2 minutes total.
• Instructions for Bananas with Chocolate Sauce:
• In a small saucepan, melt 2 tablespoons butter. Pour 1 cup heavy cream into another small saucepan and turn on the burner to medium-high. Scald the cream. Break up the semi-sweet chocolate bar into a medium mixing bowl. When the cream is hot, pour it over the chocolate and sets the bowl aside. In a large skillet, melt the other 2 tablespoons butter over medium-high heat. Peel 3 bananas, slice them and place in another mixing bowl. Add 1/2 cup sugar to the bananas, gently toss them and place them in the buttered skillet. When the bananas are golden-brown, add a dash of fortified wine and cook until it evaporates. Whisk the chocolate cream mixture until smooth, then add 2 tablespoons fortified wine, mixing well.
• Assembly:
• Put a cake slice on each dessert plate or parfait cup, top with a spoonful of the bananas, and then another cake slice and another spoonful of bananas. Drizzle the top of each dessert with the chocolate wine sauce.

CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Ingredient Note:For this recipe, be sure to use Neufchatel-type cream cheese that has 1/3 less fat than regular, not "light" cream cheese, which has less fat.
• Preheat oven to 325°F Coat a 12-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray and dust with flour.
• Whisk all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk whole eggs, buttermilk, oil, corn syrup and vanilla in another medium bowl until well blended.
• Beat egg whites in a large clean bowl with an electric mixer on high speed until light and foamy. Gradually beat in 1/2 cup sugar until stiff glossy peaks form.
• Beat butter and Neufchatel in a large bowl until creamy. Add the remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar and beat, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Alternately add the flour and buttermilk mixtures, beating until just smooth. Fold in about one-third of the egg whites with a rubber spatula until just smooth and no white streaks remain. Fold in the remaining egg whites. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, spreading evenly.
• Bake the cake until a wooden skewer inserted into it comes out clean and the top springs back when touched, 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Loosen the edges with a knife and turn out onto the rack; let cool for at least 1 hour more before slicing.

BETTY'S CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour a bundt or tube pan.
• Mix all ingredients, except powdered sugar on low for 1 minute.
• Beat on high 2 more minutes until thickened and smooth.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 38-43 minutes until toothpick in center comes out clean.
• Cool 15 minutes.
• Then turn upside down on a wire rack and remove from pan.
• Cool completely.
• Sift powdered sugar over the top if desired.

EASY CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter, cream cheese& sugar together.
• Beat until fluffy.
• Gradually add eggs (2 at a time).
• Beat a couple of seconds between adding eggs.
• Gradually add flour.
• Add vanilla, mix well.
• Grease pan well; sprinkle flour into the greased pan so that a light film of flour covers the entire inside of the pan.
• DO NOT PREHEAT OVEN!
• Bake 1 hour at 300.
• Increase oven temperature to 325 and bake an additional 25 minutes.
• Let cake cool.
• Put on cake plate and cover with foil to hold in the moisture.

PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Note: 3 sticks of butter equal 3/4 lb.
• All ingredients (including eggs and cream cheese) must be at room temperature.
• Cream butter well, add cream cheese.
• Mix thoroughly.
• Gradually add sugar.
• Add eggs, one at a time.
• Add flour gradually, then add vanilla flavor.
• Place cake in tube pan in COLD oven.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (163 degrees C) for 1 1/2 hours (gas oven 1 hour)[from the time you turn on the oven].
• Note: The longer the cream cheese, butter, and eggs sit at room temperature, the better the cake (ingredients can be left out over night).

CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In large mixing bowl, cream butter and cream cheese.
• Gradually add sugar. Beat 7 minutes.
• Add eggs 1 at a time, beat well after each addition.
• Gradually add flour; beat just until blended.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Pour into greased tube pan.
• Bake at 300 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. (90 minutes)
• Cool 15 minutes before removing to wire rack.

NANNY'S EASY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Mix all ingredients together in bowl with electric mixer for 2 minutes on medium high.
• Pour into greased bundt pan.
• Bake in oven for 50 minutes to 1 hour. Cake is done when toothpick comes out clean. Invert onto plate, cool slightly. Sprinkle sifted powdered sugar onto top of cake.