State Fair Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Have all ingredients at room temperature.
• In a mixing bowl, cream butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, and beat well.
• Add coconut and butternut flavoring.
• Sift together flour and baking powder in a bowl.
• Alternately add flour mixture and milk into creamed mixture; mix until combined.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured tube pan.
• Bake 1 3/4 hours or until the cake tests done.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan with some butter and dust lightly with flour.
• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
• Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk. Mix in vanilla extract. Pour batter into the prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack and let cool completely, about 30 minutes.