Peanut Butter Pound Cake Yields 1 Tube cake 1& 1/2 sticks butter 2 Cups Sugar 6 eggs 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract 1/2 Cup peanut butter, smooth or crunchy 2 Cups All-Purposs flour 1 Teaspoon Baking powder 1/4 Teaspoon salt 1/3 Cup peanuts Finely Chopped (optional)
Directions Cream butter & sugar until light yellow. Beat in eggs, one at at time, until thoroughly blended. add vanilla extract & slowly beat in peanut butter. sift flour with baking powder & salt. add flour mixture, a little at a time, until well blended. line a 9 or 10-inch tube pan on the bottom with wax paper. spoon in batter & bake at 350 for 45 minutes; reduce heat to 325 & bake 15 to 20 minutes longer, until cake tests done. cool in pan on wire rackfor 10 minutes, then remove from pan& cool cake completely. if desired, toward the endof baking, while cake is still soft, sprinkle about 1/3 cup finely chopped peanuts onto batter to give it a crunchy topping. Delma --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
