Old Fashioned Cream Cheese Pound Cake

• servings: 16 servings
• active time: 20 minutes
• total time: 1 hour 50 minutes

Ingredients

1½ cups unsalted butter (room temperature)

8 ounces cream cheese (room temperature)

3 cups sugar

6 eggs (room temperature)

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups cake flour (sifted)

Directions

Blend butter and cream cheese with hand mixer or stand mixer just until well blended.

Gradually add sugar beating after each addition until light and fluffy. This will take 6-8 minutes total.

Add eggs, two at a time, beating just enough to blend well after each addition.

Add vanilla just until well blended.

Fold in cake flour by hand just until well blended.

Put batter in prepared pan and bake at 275 degrees. Begin checking for doness by inserting a toothpick in center after 1 hour and 15 minutes. As soon as pick comes out clean remove from oven and let cool 10 minutes before removing from pan.

Nutrition

• Calories: 455 kcal
• Total Fat: 24 g
• Saturated Fat: 14 g
• Unsaturated Fat: 7 g
• Trans Fat: 1 g
• Cholesterol: 121 mg
• Sodium: 71 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 55 g
• Dietary Fiber: 1 g
• Total Sugars: 38 g
• Protein: 6 g