Fabulous Cream Cheese Poundcake
Submitted by frick on August 23, 2010 at 2:32 pm
It's imperative that you have a 12-cup bundt pan, not the smaller 8-10 cup pan. Alternatively, it can be baked in two loaf pans though I have not done this & baking time would be less. I clipped this recipe from Bon Appetit or Gourmet so many years ago, there is no notation on the original copy.
1 – 8 oz pkg cream cheese
3 sticks butter *(this originally called for 2 sticks margarine and 1 of butter)
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
2 tsp vanilla, or 1 tsp vanilla & 1 tsp lemon or almond extract
3 cups cake flour
Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour 12-cup bundt pan. Cream butter and cream cheese with sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time,
Alternately with flour. Blend in vanilla.
Bake 30 minutes. Reduce heat to 325 F and bake 45 – 55 minutes or until cake tests clean and pulls away from sides of pan. Cool in pan 10 minutes and turn out.
Note: MrsM's recipe (from the Time-Life series) is identical except it uses all purpose flour, 1Tbsp. vanilla and baking directions are slightly different (90 minutes at 325 degrees).