Addys Pound Cake American Girl Collection Recipes

Steps:

• Grease a loaf or bundt pan with shortening. Add about a tablespoon of flour and shake around pan to coat evenly. Set aside. Preheat oven.
• Separate eggs into small bowls.
• Unwrap the sticks of butter. Cut the butter into small, manageable one-inch long portions and place them in a heavy, cool mixing bowl.
• Add 1/4cup of sugar to bowl.Set your mixer to its lowest speed and mix the butter and sugar until no clumps remain. Turn your mixer to medium speed and continue to mix for about two minutes while regularly scraping off beater buildup with a rubber spatula.Continue to add 1/4 cup of sugar at a time and keep mixing.
• Blend until fluffy and smooth.
• Beat eggs yolks and mix well. Add to sugar mixture.
• Add vanilla.
• Sift dry ingrdients together and gradually add into the sugar mixture.
• Take the egg whites and beat until stiff.
• Gradually add the whites to your sugar mixture.
• Pour your batter into prepared pan.
• Place in a 350 degree oven for 35 minutes.
• Turn down temp to 325 and cook for another 25 minutes.
• Cake is ready when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool at least 10 minutes before removing from pan.

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Sift flour three times. Add flour and whipping cream alternately to butter mixture. Add extracts. Grease steeple pan. Bake on middle rack for 1 1/2 hours at 350 degrees.
• Cool for 15 minutes then invert pan.

Steps:

• Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 325 degrees F. Using a pastry brush, thoroughly coat an 8-1/2 x 4-1/2 x 2-3/4-inch loaf pan with 1 tbsp softened butter. Line the bottom with a rectangle of parchment.
• In a medium bowl, combine the flour and salt and whisk thoroughly.
• Using a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the eggs on medium-high speed until thickened and lightened in color, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer to a medium bowl and set aside. Clean the bowl of the stand mixer and fit it with the paddle attachment.
• Beat the butter on medium-low speed until smooth and creamy, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the vanilla extract and mix 1 minute longer. Add the sugar 1 to 2 tbsp at a time, taking about 4 minutes to add it all and scraping the bowl as needed.
• Still on medium-low speed, slowly add half of the beaten eggs, taking about 2 minutes to add them. Scrape the bowl as needed and beat for 30 seconds more.
• Reduce the speed to low and add the dry ingredients alternately with the remaining eggs (divide the flour into 3 parts and the eggs into 2 parts), mixing just until each addition is incorporated. Scrape the bowl and beat on medium low for 10 seconds more.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared pan. Smooth the top with the back of a large soup spoon, making sure to reach well into the corners. Bang the pan on the counter two times to remove any air pockets.
• Bake the cake until the top is golden-brown, the sides begin to pull away from the pan, and a thin wooden skewer inserted slightly off center into the cake (not into the crack) comes out clean, 1 hour and 20 to 25 minutes.
• During the last 15 minutes of baking, lightly spray a 12-inch strip of aluminum foil with nonstick cooking spray and rest it loosely on top of the cake. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool for at least 20 minutes before removing from the pan.
• Dust the top with confectioners' sugar and use a serrated knife to cut the cake into 1/2-inch slices.