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Mama's Pound Cake

  • Prep20 min
  • Total20 min
  • Servings10
  • DifficultyMedium

Dessert

Ingredients

  • butter (salted) — ½ cup
  • shortening (Crisco) — ½ cup
  • sugar — 3 cup
  • egg — 5 pc
  • flour, white (white sifted all-purpose) — 3 cup
  • salt — ½ tsp
  • baking powder — ½ tsp
  • milk (2 %) — 1 cup
  • vanilla extract — 1 tsp

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven: 350F degrees
  2. With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternatively with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan. Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

Notes

Source: Food Network