Home of Mike's Recipes Pound Cake 1 pound butter
Take three tablespoons of
butter out of the pound, cream the rest of the butter with Crisco. Add
powdered sugar and cream well together. Add one egg at a time beating after
each addition. Sift flour, baking powder and cornstarch. Add this to first
mixture, one tablespoon at a time until all is gone. Add
Grease brown paper with Crisco and line a spring form pan.... paper should come up above the pan rim...the cake rises and is quite high. Put in dough and even all out. Bake in an oven at 250F for 2 hours or more [...this is not an error!! ;-)] and DO NOT OPEN OVEN until at least 1 hour after it is in. When cake is done...when cake tester comes out dry..., leave in oven for 5 minutes with oven turned off. DO NOT REMOVE FROM PAN UNTIL NEXT DAY. Cover with towel. Icing Mix about 3/4 of a box of
confectionery sugar [ = powdered sugar] with a little milk... tablespoon
or so (???)....Add a tablespoon of melted butter. Mix enough milk until
proper consistency is attained [...spreadable... not dripable! ;-)] Last
of all add a teaspoon of almond extract for flavoring. Spread on cake and
decorate with walnuts or candied cherries around the edge... or even washed
green hedge leaves with the cherries!!! Hehehe!
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