Aunt Johnnie's Pound Cake

By Pikachutherecipereader

Delicate and delightful! I don't keep cake flour in the house, but on the back of my cornstarch box, it gives directions how to make your own cake flour: For 1 cup cake flour, combine 3/4 cup plus 2 Tbs all purpose flour with 2 Tbs corn starch. Sift together and use in any recipe calling for cake flour. I used this substituion in the recipe and it worked wonderfully. For light texture, remember to cream shortening, butter and sugar, then add eggs one at a time, this process took me at least 5 minutes of mixing with the electric mixer but was well worth it! A definite keeper!

Ingredients

• Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 cup butter
• 2 1/2 cups white sugar
• 5 eggs
• 2 teaspoons almond extract
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 cups cake flour

Details

Servings 12
Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 90mins
Adapted from allrecipes.com

Preparation

Step 1

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Lightly grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.

2. Cream shortening, butter and sugar until light and fluffy (for best results use an electric mixer). This will take a while. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in almond extract.

3. Combine baking powder and flour. Stir into creamed mixture alternately with the milk, starting and ending with flour. Pour batter into prepared pan.

4. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.