Not only was it Elvis' favorite pound cake, it's mine as well. Been
making this for years, a fine textured cake. Makes a good cake for
those of you who do cake carving. I make this at Thanksgiving to
look like a turkey (with little marzipan potatoes & carrots around
it)
* Exported from MasterCook *
WHIPPING CREAM POUND CAKE (AKA Elvis Presley's Favorite Cake)
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Categories : !! Church Baking Cakes - Bundt/Tube
Cakes - Pound
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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3 cups sugar
1/2 pound butter -- softned
7 eggs -- room temperature
2 1/2 cups flour -- sifted twice
1/2 cup corn starch
1 cup whipping cream -- 1/2 pint heavy cream
2 Tablespoons vanilla extract*
Butter and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Thoroughly cream together sugar
and butter. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition
(about 1 minute after each). Add vanilla & whipping cream & corn
starch. Beat for several minutes. Add half of flour & gently fold
into batter. When flour is incorporated, add remaining flour &
again, gently fold into batter. Pour batter into prepared pan. Set
in COLD oven and turn heat to 350 degrees. Bake 60 to 70 minutes,
until a sharp knife inserted in cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 5
minutes. Remove from pan and cool thoroughly.
*Or use 1 TBSP vanilla & 1 TBSP a blend of other flavors such as
lemon, almond, orange, brandy, rum, coconut, coffee, etc.
If you have a habit of dropping your cakes on the counter to take air
bubbles out of the batter DON'T -- that will deflate the cake.
A very fine grained but lighter than usual pound cake. I put a pan
of water in the bottom of the oven to keep cakes moist, this
increases baking time by about 10-15 minutes if you choose to do
this. (I would encourage it)
Makes a very nice basic cake. In the summer I serve this with
sweetened pureed strawberries, in the winter with Chocolate Cream
Cheese Frosting -- although the cake is rich & only a sprinkling of
powdered sugar is all that is needed.
Source:
"adapted from Buffolo Evening News"
S(Formatted for Mastercook):
"Deirdre Dee (zosha)"
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Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 5605 Calories; 222g Fat (35.2%
calories from fat); 78g Protein; 841g Carbohydrate; 9g Dietary Fiber;
1981mg Cholesterol; 2377mg Sodium. Exchanges: 15 1/2 Grain(Starch);
5 1/2 Lean Meat; 39 1/2 Fat; 40 Other Carbohydrates.
Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for yourself.
Deirdre Dee (zosha)
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