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The Perfect Pound Cake

By Paula Deen

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Difficulty: Easy

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 15 minutes

Servings: 15

Ingredients

  • 3 cups granulated sugar
  • 2 sticks softened butter
  • 3 cups (use regular flour and you'€™ll be sorry) cake flour
  • 8 oz at room temperature heavy whipping cream
  • 6 at room temperature eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1/3 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Directions

Cream butter and sugar in a mixer.

Add 1 egg at a time.

Add flour and cream, alternating between the two.

Add baking powder.

Add salt.

Add vanilla.

Put in greased and floured “pound cake pan,” you know, the one with the funnel in the middle.

Put in cold oven, middle rack.

Turn oven to 350 °F and go run errands. Come back in 1 hour and remove. Let cool.

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November 23, 2018
This is a wonderful pound cake - one caution - if you have a BLUE OVEN you cannot put the batter in when the oven is cold. The broiler turns on during preheating and will burn the top of the cake. I learned this the hard way. However if you preheat the oven and then bake as instructed the cake will be perfect.

Deborah Labye

August 17, 2014
Dear Paula, Do we ever miss you!! Every time 5 PM (Pacific Coast Time) rolls around I find myself turning to the Food Channel and find myself missing your good humor and your family. I hope you take good care for yourself for a world without Paula would be like a recipe without ... butter! Best wishes, Debby Labye

ZELDA FAYE WILLIAMS

July 27, 2014
I LOVE U PAULA. LOVE, MS. ZELDA WILLIAMS

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