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Pound Cake
 
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Prep Time: 15 Minutes
Cook Time: 1 Minutes
Ready In: 16 Minutes
Servings: 24
Adapted from Paula Deen
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:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together.
3. Add sugar, a little at a time.
4. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
5. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour.
6. Mix in vanilla.
7. 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.
By RecipeOfHealth.com