Classic Pound Cake

By bklynmommy

Ingredients

• 3 c. sugar
• 1/2 lb. (2 sticks) butter
• 2 T. Crisco shortening
• 6 eggs
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 3 c. flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 c. milk (my mother-in-law and I use 2% milk)

Preparation

Step 1

Cream the sugar, butter, and Crisco. Add eggs and vanilla; beat with an electric mixer about 10-15 minutes. Combine the flour and baking powder. Add flour mixture and milk, alternately, to the creamed sugar and eggs mixture. Pour batter into a tube pan that has been generously sprayed with cooking spray. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool about a 1/2 an hour in the pan; remove cake from pan.