Cream Cheese Pound Cake
It can be flavored with just about anything and is delicious with or without a simple confectioner sugar glaze. 3 sticks butter ( you can use margarine but it's not as good) 3 cups sugar 3 cups flour 8oz cream cheese 6 eggs 1 teaspoon of your favorite flavoring you don't need baking powder in this recipe. Cream the butter, sugar, and cream cheese together until light. Add eggs one at a time. Blend in flavoring. Add flour and mix until well blended. The batter will be thick it should NOT pour. Spoon it into a 10 inch bundt pan. Bake at 350 for about an hour and a half. test for doneness by sticking a toothpick in the center. Ginger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Hannah Liebowitz (Ginger)" This is a great Coconut Cake! 3 cups all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup milk, ( you can also use coconut milk, it's much better!) 1 cup butter, softened 2 cups sugar 4 eggs In a medium bowl combine the flour baking powder and salt, set aside. Stir the vanilla into the milk. set aside In a large bowl beat the softened butter with a mixer at medium speed until creamy. Add the sugar and continue beating. Stop ping to scrape down the sides, until the mixture is light and evenly combined. Add the eggs, one by one and beat well. Mix until mixture is thick and smooth. Add one third of the flour mixture to the batter and beat well at low speed. Then add about half of the milk to the batter, beating well. Continue beating as you add another third of the flour mixture, followed by the rest of the milk, then the rest of the flour . Beat until very thick and smooth. quickly add the batter into the prepared pans. Bake at 350 until the cakes are golden and spring back when lightly touched. Remove from oven and cool completely. COCONUT ICING 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup water 2 egg whites about 3 cups fresh (or bagged coconut will do fine) coconut Cook the sugar and water until a syrup forms. In a large bowl beat the egg whites at high speed until they are bright white , shiny and pillow up into clouds. While beating at high speed, pour the cooked syrup into the egg whites to blend them together into a fluffy icing. 4-5 minutes. This icing takes patience but the results are worth it. Ice the cake and then press the fresh coconut into the cake. You can also sprinkle the coconut between the layers. this is the best coconut cake I have ever made, Enjoy! Hannah Ginger Sugar Syl says, Go on & touch someone with a little sugar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
