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• Two Hours Before
• 1 cup (4 sticks) butter
• Place butter on counter and let rise to room temperature.
• Batter
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• reserved butter
• In a separate large bowl, cream butter using an electric mixer.
• 1 pound 8 ounces sugar (3 cups)
• Add sugar to butter and cream with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• 8 eggs
• Add eggs one a time and cream with an electric mixer until fully combined. Set aside.
• 18 ounces cake flour (4 cups)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
• 1 cup milk
• 2 ½ teaspoons almond extract
• Pour milk into a measuring cup and add almond extract to milk.
• reserved flour mixture
• reserved milk
• Add ½ of the flour mixture and ½ of the milk to the creamed butter and beat with an electric mixer to combine. Repeat with remaining milk and flour and mix to combine.
• Baking
• cooking spray
• parchment paper
• Lightly coat a large bundt pan or three (3) loaf pans with cooking spray and line with parchment paper. Allow paper to hang out over sides to make it easier to pull out pound cake.
• Pour batter into bundt pan or divide batter evenly between loaf pans. Bake at 350°F until top is golden brown and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour to 1 hour 20 min.

MakeBetterFood.com

From MakeBetterFood.com. Jun 13, 2012. (http://makebetterfood.com/recipes/pound-cake/). Adapted from Rombauer, Irma S. and Becker, Marion R. The Joy of Cooking. (Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963.) p. 626.

• 1 cup (4 sticks) butter
• reserved butter
• 1 pound 8 ounces sugar (3 cups)
• 8 eggs
• 18 ounces cake flour (4 cups)
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk
• 2 ½ teaspoons almond extract
• reserved flour mixture
• reserved milk
• cooking spray
• parchment paper

1. Place butter on counter and let rise to room temperature.
2. Preheat oven to 350°F.
3. In a separate large bowl, cream butter using an electric mixer.
4. Add sugar to butter and cream with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
5. Add eggs one a time and cream with an electric mixer until fully combined. Set aside.
6. In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
7. Pour milk into a measuring cup and add almond extract to milk.
8. Add ½ of the flour mixture and ½ of the milk to the creamed butter and beat with an electric mixer to combine. Repeat with remaining milk and flour and mix to combine.
9. Lightly coat a large bundt pan or three (3) loaf pans with cooking spray and line with parchment paper. Allow paper to hang out over sides to make it easier to pull out pound cake.
10. Pour batter into bundt pan or divide batter evenly between loaf pans. Bake at 350°F until top is golden brown and a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour to 1 hour 20 min.