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VERSATILE POUND CAKE 1/2 lb. butter or margarine 2 c. sugar 4 extra large eggs 1 c. milk 3 c. flour (3 1/2 c. cake flour) 2 tsp. baking powder (1 1/2 tsp. baking powder) 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla (2 tsp. vanilla) 1/4 c. cocoa (optional for marble pound cake) Elsie's Version: Cream butter and sugar for 5 minutes until very creamy. Next, add remaining ingredients and mix at high speed for 4 minutes longer. Use a tube pan or 2 loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes. Variation 1: For a velvety textured pound cake, substi- tute the ingredients in parenthesis for the regular ingredients listed adjacent. Cake flour can be purchased in a pink box with description "Softasilk". Follow same recipe instructions. Variation 2: For a marble pound cake: Follow recipe instructions but remove 2 1/2 cups of fully mixed batter. Beat in 1/4 cup of cocoa until blended. Alternate spooning vanilla and chocolate batter. Cut through with a spoon in a zigzag. Go around once. This is a recipe from our database at Cookbooks On/Line! 1,000,000+ free recipes and free software at: http://www.cookbooks.com Accuracy is believed to be good, but is not guaranteed. This recipe posting is intended for personal use only. You can print a copy for yourself and/or your friends, but you cannot publish it or post it to any Internet or other public site without our permission. |