Never Fail Pound Cake Paula Deen Recipes

Steps:

• Special equipment: a 10-inch bundt pan, greased and floured
• In a large bowl, using a mixer, combine the butter and sugar until creamy.
• Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add the flour and milk alternately, beginning and ending with the flour.
• Stir in the lemon extract.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared pan.
• Place pan in a cold oven and heat oven to 325 degrees F. Bake cake for 1 hour. Increase the temperature to 350 degrees F and bake for 30 minutes more.
• *Cook's Note: Do not open the oven door while baking.
• Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes, and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Grease & flour a 10" tube pan or bundt pan.
• Sift dry Ingredients.
• Cream butter & shortening together.
• Add sugar a little at a time.
• Cream until fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition to fully incorporate the eggs into the batter.
• Add dry ingredients and milk to mixture alternating; starting and ending with flour.
• Mix in vanilla.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until it passes the toothpick test.