Old Fashioned Pound Cake
This is the best old fashioned pound cake that yields a delicious, buttery, dense pound cake perfect for fruit or whipped cream!
Equipment
- 1 stand mixer
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 3 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F and grease and flour a loaf pan.
- In your stand mixer on a high speed, cream the butter and sugar until fluffy.
- With your mixer on low, add eggs one at a time until combined.
- Add in your cream cheese, vanilla and salt. Mix until combined.
- Dump in your flour. Turn your mixer on low and allow it to slowly combine the flour and wet ingredients. Resist the temptation to overmix. That will make this loaf dry.
- Pour your thick batter into your prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick comes out clean. It's a dense cake, so bake longer if needed.
- Cool for 15 minutes in the pan before turning out onto a cooling rack.