Southern Livings Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipes

STRAWBERRY SWIRL CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Beat butter at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add cream cheese, beating until creamy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
• Gradually add flour to butter mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition, stopping to scrape bowl as needed. Stir in almond and vanilla extracts. Pour one-third of batter into a greased and floured 10-inch (14-cup) tube pan (about 2 2/3 cups batter). Dollop 8 rounded teaspoonfuls strawberry glaze over batter, and swirl with a wooden skewer. Repeat procedure once, and top with remaining third of batter.
• Bake at 350° for 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack, and cool completely (about 1 hour).
• NOTE: We tested with Marzetti Glaze for Strawberries.

CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F. Generously coat a 10-inch tube pan with shortening; dust with flour. Beat butter and cream cheese with a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment on medium speed until smooth, about 30 seconds. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs; beat until just blended, about 30 seconds. Add flour; beat until smooth, about 30 seconds. Stir in vanilla.
• Pour batter into prepared tube pan. Bake in preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour, 45 minutes. Cool in pan 20 minutes. Remove from pan, and let cool completely on a wire rack, about 2 hours.

SOUTHERN LIVING'S CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Use an electric mixer to mix both butter and cream cheese until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar and beat for 5 minutes, then add eggs one at a time, allowing each to incorporate before adding more. Stir in vanilla.
• Sift flour and salt and add gradually to the mixer, beating until well blended.
• Pour batter into a well greased and floured bundt pan or tube cake pan.
• Place 2 cups water in an ovenproof container on the rack in the oven next to the cake.
• Bake cake at 300 for an hour and 45 minutes, or until a toothpick can be removed cleanly.
• Place pan on a wire rack and cool for 15 minutes, then remove the cake from the pan and complete cooling on the wire rack.

CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer for 2 minutes or until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating until mixture is light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until combined. Add vanilla extract, and beat just until blended.
• Combine flour and salt in a small bowl; gradually add to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended after each addition. Pour batter into a greased (with shortening) and floured 10-inch tube pan.
• Bake at 300° for 1 hour and 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan, and let cool completely on wire rack (about 1 hour).