President Washington's Pound Cake
Created by dienia b on November 26, 2019
- Servings: 8
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 40m
- Recipe #33845
Ingredients
- 1⁄2 pound butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 5 eggs, room temperature
- 2 cups cake flour, unsifted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
How to Make
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Step 1: Thoroughly grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt or tube pan
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Step 2: Then shake out excess flour.
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Step 3: Heat oven to 350 degrees.
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Step 4: Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about three minutes in a stand mixer or more with a handheld mixer. Scrape down sides of the bowl once or twice.
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Step 5: Add eggs one at a time, beating well about 30 seconds after each egg.
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Step 6: In between additions of egg, scrape down sides of bowl to ensure thorough mixing of ingredients.
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Step 7: Fold in cake flour.
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Step 8: Add vanilla and salt.
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Step 9: Pour mixture into prepared pan and bake 35 to 40 minutes, or just until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
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Step 10: Cool the cake in the pan for about 10 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen them as needed. Then turn the cake out on a rack to cool completely.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (261.4 g)
- Calories 718.4
- Total Fat - 38.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 19.5 g
- Cholesterol - 626 mg
- Sodium - 564.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 72.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.2 g
- Sugars - 50.7 g
- Protein - 23.3 g
- Calcium - 102.7 mg
- Iron - 3.8 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg