Paula Deen Pound Cake Recipes

PAULA DEEN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease a tube pan generously with butter and lightly coat with flour. Shake off the excess flour.
• In a large bowl, combine the butter and shortening. Beat at medium speed for 4-8 minutes, or until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add the eggs, 1 by 1, beating after every addition.
• In a separate bowl, combine the baking powder, salt, flour, and sugar.
• Gradually pour the dry ingredients into the butter-egg mixture alternately with the milk, ending with the dry ingredients. Beat after every addition, until well-combined. Stir in the vanilla.
• Pour the batter into the greased pan. Bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Flip it over onto a wire rack and allow it to cool completely.

MAMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 °F.
• With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. To the bowl, add sugar a little at a time. Then, add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. In another bowl, stir dry ingredients together then add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

NEVER-FAIL POUND CAKE - PAULA DEEN

Steps:

• Special equipment: a 10-inch bundt pan, greased and floured
• In a large bowl, using a mixer, combine the butter and sugar until creamy.
• Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add the flour and milk alternately, beginning and ending with the flour.
• Stir in the lemon extract.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared pan.
• Place pan in a cold oven and heat oven to 325 degrees F. Bake cake for 1 hour. Increase the temperature to 350 degrees F and bake for 30 minutes more.
• *Cook's Note: Do not open the oven door while baking.
• Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.