Golden Pound Cake

  • 20 mins
  • 40 mins

Ingredients

  • 3 cups Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 ¾ cups sugar SAVE $
  • 1 ¼ cups butter or margarine, softened SAVE $
  • 1 teaspoon almond extract
  • 5 eggs SAVE $
  • 1 cup evaporated milk

Preparation

Step 1

1 Heat oven to 350ºF. Grease and flour 12-cup fluted tube cake pan or 10-inch angel food (tube) cake. Mix flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
2 Beat sugar, butter, almond extract and eggs in large bowl with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 5 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk on low speed. Pour into pan.
3 Bake 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 20 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 40 minutes.
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