It's coming up on the Holidays and I always bake a pound cake for them. Below is my recipe that I use. It's a old family recipe and makes one of the bigger pound cakes.
2 sticks butter room temp
1/4 cup Crisco
6 eggs room temp
1 cup milk room temp
3 cups plain floor
pinch of salt
3 cups sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder, but I add another 1/2 tsp to mine.
1 tsp lemon flavoring or 1 tsp vanilla flavoring, which ever you like or you can add both.
Cream butter,crisco and sugar, add eggs one at a time .
In another bowl I mix flour, salt and baking powder.
Then I mix it all together and add flavoring. I normally do lemon that's what they like the best.
Put in a greased and floured pan and bake at 325 for 1 1/2 hours. My pound cake pan is the old aluminum type so if you use a dark pan I'm sure the time would be shorter so if I did I would check it sooner.
