Cold Oven Pound Cake

By: Sonji Breeding Dunn
Cook 1 hour 15 minutes
10-12 people Servings
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup shortening vegetable
  • 1 stick butter unsalted, room temperature
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 3 cups flour plain
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tsp pure vanilla
Instructions
  1. DO NOT PREHEAT OVEN.
  2. Generously grease and lightly flour bundt cake pan, set aside.
  3. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt; sift again; set aside.
  4. Cream together the stick of butter, shortening, and sugar, until well blended.
  5. Add eggs, one at a time to butter/shortening/sugar mixture, beating together with mixer on medium speed, until well blended.
  6. Add flour mixture alternately while adding the milk, to this mixture.
  7. Mix in vanilla.
  8. Your batter will be very thick consistently. Pour into your floured and greased bundt pan.
  9. Place in a cold oven, then set oven temperature for 350 degrees.
  10. DO NOT OPEN OVEN WHILE CAKE IS BAKING.
  11. Allow to cook 1 hour and 15 minutes.
  12. Remove from oven, allow to cool completely in pan on wire baking rack.
  13. Carefully remove cake to favorite cake plate. This cake is heavy.
  14. Cool completely in pan on wire baking rack.
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