Chef Jim's Elizabethan Cold Oven Pound Cake

By JimMac

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter flavored Crisco shortening (regular works too)
• 2 sticks butter, softened
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs (room temperature)
• 3 cups cake flour (regular flour works too)
• 1 cup evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (or lemon or almond)
• Pam or Baker’s Joy non-stick spray

Preparation

Step 1

Cream the shortening and butter. Mix in sugar, and beat well.
Add eggs and beat well.

Add flour and evaporated milk alternately, starting with four and ending with flour. Add the vanilla. Mix well.

Pour batter into a tube pan (or Bundt pan) that has been sprayed with Pam or Baker’s Joy. Put the pan in a cold oven.

Set the oven temperature at 275 degrees and bake for 2-1/2 hours (check the cake after 1 hour and 50 minutes).

Cool on wire rack for 15 minutes. Remove cake from pan and invert onto plate.