Crusty Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Butter and flour one Bundt pan. Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Cream together butter, cream cheese, and shortening.
• Add sugar and beat until the mixture is light and fluffy.
• Alternately add flour and eggs beginning and ending with flour. Make sure to beat well after each egg.
• Stir in vanilla and pour into prepared bundt pan.
• Cook for 1 hour and 15-20 minutes or until tester comes out clean.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With an electric mixer, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar; beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in vanilla. With mixer on low, add flour and salt in two additions, beating until just combined.
• Generously coat two 8 1/2-by-4 1/2- by-2 1/2-inch loaf pans (1 1/2 quarts each) with cooking spray; immediately pour in batter (pan will seem full). Tap pans on work surface to eliminate any large air bubbles.
• Bake until golden and a toothpick inserted in the centers comes out almost clean, 60 to 75 minutes (if the tops begin to brown too quickly, tent with aluminum foil).
• Cool 10 minutes in the pan. Turn out the cakes; cool completely, with top sides up, on a wire rack.

Steps:

• Cream butter and shortening. Gradually add sugar, beating well at medium speed of mixer. Add cream cheese, beating well til light and fluffy. Alternately add flour and eggs, beginning and ending with flour. Stir in vanilla. Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 325 for 1 hour and 15 minutes.