Cream Cheese Pound Cake- Cook's Country Recipe
In this cake, cream cheese adds richness and tangy flavor to classic, buttery pound cake. We let the pure flavors of eggs and butter take center stage, adding only a few teaspoons of vanilla and a moderate amount of sugar. For a velvety texture, extra yolks and lower-protein cake flour were key. And to achieve a tight, fine crumb, we left the leavener out all together. Finally, a low oven may take a little longer, but it produces a golden-brown crust and a moist, tender interior.
- 12
Ingredients
- 3 cups (12 ounces) cake flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 large eggs plus 2 large yolks, room temperature
- 1/4 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups (21 ounces) sugar
- 24 tablespoons (3 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 6 ounces cream cheese, softened
Preparation
Step 1
1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour 12-cup nonstick Bundt pan. To grease and flour the Bundt pan, brush the inside of your Bundt pan with melted butter, dust it with flour, and knock out any excess. Combine flour and salt in bowl. Whisk eggs and yolks, milk, and vanilla together in 2-cup liquid measuring cup.
2. Using stand mixer fitted with paddle, beat sugar, butter, and cream cheese on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to low and very slowly add egg mixture until incorporated (batter may look slightly curdled). Add flour mixture in 3 additions, scraping down bowl as needed. Give batter final stir by hand.
3. Scrape batter into prepared pan and gently tap pan on counter to release air bubbles. Bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 80 to 90 minutes, rotating pan halfway through baking. Cool cake in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove cake from pan and cool completely, about 2 hours. Serve. (Cake can be wrapped in plastic wrap and held at room temperature for 3 days.)