Ultimate Butter Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. fluted tube pan., Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and eggs, one at a time. Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Add to creamed mixture alternately with water, beating after each addition., Transfer to prepared pan., Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 50-55 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan; cool completely on a wire rack., If desired, for garnish, place corn syrup in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, 10 seconds or until warm. Brush corn syrup lightly over rosemary. Sprinkle sugar to coat; place on waxed paper to dry. Reheat remaining corn syrup until warm; gently toss cranberries and blueberries in syrup. Toss in remaining sugar to coat. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set, about 1 hour., Just before serving, top cake with sugared rosemary and berries. If desired, dust with confectioners' sugar.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Generously grease two 8 x 4-inch loaf pans or a 4-quart tube pan.
• In a bowl cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth.
• Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy, about 5-7 minutes (you MUST beat for at least 5 minutes this is an important step!).
• Add the eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
• Mix in vanilla.
• With mixer on low add the flour and salt in two additions.
• Immediately pour in batter into prepared pan.
• Tap pans to eliminate any large air bubbles in the batter.
• Bake 60-75 minutes, or until cakes tests done.
• Note: if the tops begin to brown too quickly tent loosely with foil.
• Cool in pans for 10 minutes.
• Turn out the cakes then cool completely with the tops up on a wire rack.
• Note: if baking in a 4-qt tube pan increase baking time by about 5 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 or 10 inch tube pan.
• With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time and mix well.
• Introduce the flour, one cup at a time while adding cream a little at a time until all flour and cream is mixed in well.
• Add the vanilla and lemon flavoring and blend well. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 1-1/2 hours or until center springs back from small amount of pressure. Immediately turn out on cake rack to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at a time.
• Add sifted flour a cup at a time.
• Add milk and flavoring.
• Pour into a greased bundt cake pan.
• Bake about 1 hour.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan with some butter and dust lightly with flour.
• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
• Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk. Mix in vanilla extract. Pour batter into the prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack and let cool completely, about 30 minutes.