The Best Ever Pound Cake!

Anyone that knows me and has been around me at all knows that I love to bake a pound cake! I have been using this recipe since I was about 18 years old...if you know how old I am, that's a long time! My sister gave me this recipe, where she got it I don't know. For years, I made it using margarine. I always got compliments on it, but it wasn't until I switched to butter that it really did become "THE BEST EVER!"

I promise you this: BUTTER REALLY DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

I'm not one of those people that doesn't share recipes so here goes...

BEST EVER POUND CAKE

Ingredients:

3 Sticks Butter, softened

1 8 oz Bar Cream Cheese, softened

3 Cups Sugar

2 T. Vanilla Flavor

3 Cups Cake Flour

6 Eggs

Cream butter and cream cheese together. Add sugar and vanilla and beat until fluffy. Add 1 cup flour and 2 eggs. Beat at medium speed. Continue adding 1 cup flour and 2 eggs until all are mixed in. Beat until smooth. (About a minute or two at medium speed) Pour into a prepared bundt pan and bake at 325 degrees for 1.5 hours.

A few things...

• I sometimes use unsalted butter. It really doesn't matter to me which I use. It always turns out well.
• Baker's Joy cooking spray makes the prettiest cakes
• I usually have to bake my cake a few minutes longer.
• I don't sift my cake flour.
• Never let my sister, Gail around your "crusty" pound cake...she will eat it (the crust) all!!!