Whipping Cream Pound Cake

Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 70 min
Servings: 14
Yield: 14 servings

Description

This recipe uses cake flour and margarine to deliver a moist, rich, and fine-textured pound cake.

Ingredients

1 cup butter, room temperature
3 cups white sugar
6 eggs, room temperature
3 cups cake flour
1 cup heavy cream, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar, for dusting

Directions

1 Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
2 In a large bowl, cream butter for 2 minutes. Add sugar and continue beating for 5 minutes, scraping down bowl occasionally. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add eggs one at a time, beating well with each addition.
3 Add flour alternately with whipping cream, beginning and ending with flour. Stir in vanilla and almond extract.
4 Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Allow to cool in pan for 15 minutes.
5 Turn cake out onto a cotton dish towel and place on cooling rack covered with cotton towel. When cake is cool, top with confectioners' sugar and serve with fruit or by itself.