Crunchy Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Beat butter with an electric mixer until soft and creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl as you go, about 2 minutes. Gradually add in sugar on medium speed. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition until the yellow disappears from the previous one.
• Combine flour and baking soda in a bowl. Add sour cream to the creamed butter mixture alternately with the flour, ending with sour cream. Beat in vanilla and almond extract just until combined. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 30 minutes. Dust with powdered sugar.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325º.
• Grease and flour bundt pan.
• Combine butter and shortening in mixer bowl.
• Add eggs and blend well.
• Add other ingredients.
• Beat on medium speed for 10 minutes.
• Pour into pan.
• Bake 70 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes.

Steps:

• Do not preheat oven.
• Grease a 12-cup tube pan.
• In a small bowl, blend all the topping ingredients with a fork and press into the bottom of the prepared pan; set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, blend the butter and sugar on low speed and beat until light and fluffy (approximately 5-6 minutes).
• Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Slowly stir in the sifted flour. Add the vanilla extract.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour at 325°F, or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool the cake in the pan for at least one hour.
• Invert the pan over a cake plate, cake should slide out nicely with a beautiful crunchy top!

Steps:

• 1. DO NOT PREHEAT OVEN. All ingredients room temperature (75F or above) WELL GREASE and Flour: one tube pan, or two loaf pans
• 2. Cream the sugar and butter. Reduce speed and add one egg, whip for 1/2 minute then add the other eggs, one at a time, whipping for 1/2 minute between each one.
• 3. Reduce speed to slowest and add 1/4 of the flour, blend for 2 minutes using spatula to scrape the bowl. Now add 1/3 of milk, the food coloring and whip 1 minute then repeat alternating flour and milk. Starting and ending with flour.
• 4. Do not preheat the oven. Place the cake on the middle rack and turn oven to 325 F. Bake for 1 1/4 hour -- then set oven to 350 F and bake for 15 minutes more. Cake should be very brown but not burnt.
• 5. Remove the cake from the pan immediately when taken out of oven and place it on a cooling rack to cool.