Cream Cheese Pound Cake

[cougars_catnip]

Everybody should have at least one good pound cake recipie.
 

 

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

UK version :

Ingredients

224 g cream cheese

340 g butter

600 g white sugar

6 eggs

375 g cake flour

10 ml vanilla extract

US Version :

 

 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese

 1 1/2 cups butter

 3 cups white sugar

6 eggs

 3 cups cake flour

 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

Make sure butter, cream cheese and eggs are at room temperature before mixing.

1. Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan or two loaf pans.

2. In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar gradually and beat until fluffy.

3. Add eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition. Add the flour all at once and mix in. Add vanilla.

4. Pour into a 10 inch tube pan or two loaf pans. Start in a cold oven and bake at 325 degrees F (160 degrees C) for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Check for doneness at 1 hour. A toothpick inserted into center of cake will come out clean.

5. Serve with strawberries, good vanilla bean ice cream and whipped cream; cube and dip into fondue; drizzle with a powdered sugar lemon glaze; toast and spread with Nutella; or just eat out of hand.

Tips::  You can't rush the mixing process. (If you have one, use a stand mixer with the paddle attachment for the best result.) Beat the butter and the cream cheese until it looks silky. Add sugar in a slow stream with the mixer still running and beat until this is full and fluffy. This takes a good while, but this how you'll get a lighter cake. The butter, cheese, sugar and eggs mixture should be well mixed because once you add the flour, you are only mixing to incorporate.

 

Optional: exchange 1/4 cup of butter for 1/4 cup buttermilk.

Fill pan half way, sprinkle with raspberries or nuts. Pour on rest of batter and bake.

Add 1 tsp. lemon extract or almond extract.

 

Comments

[monanotlisa]

This does look good -- and yes, I'm with you: step-by-step yield better results (and doesn't even make a big time difference).

[alchemise]

This looks fantastic!