Pound Cake

Name: Pound Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 24 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1/2 lb butter, plus more for pan; 1/2 cup vegetable shortening; 3 cups sugar (you can reduce sugar for personal preference); 5 eggs; 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan; 1/2 teaspoon fine salt; 1/2 teaspoon baking powder; 1 cup milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Submitted by Air Force Mama

"Adapted from Paula Deen"

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Ready In:: 1hr 45mins
Ingredients:: 9
Serves:: 24

ingredients

¹⁄₂ lb butter, plus more for pan
¹⁄₂ cup vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar (you can reduce sugar for personal preference)
5 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
¹⁄₂ teaspoon fine salt
¹⁄₂ teaspoon baking powder
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together.
Add sugar, a little at a time.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and 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.