Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe

My grandmother has made this cream cheese pound cake throughout my life, and have never had a better pound cake! She said the recipe originally came from the Oconee County Centennial Cookbook 1875-1975.
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Ingredients
  • 3
    stk
    butter or margarine
  • 3
    cups
    sugar
  • 1
    pinch
    salt (or a dash)
  • 8
    oz.
    cream cheese (1 pack)
  • 6
    large eggs
  • 1 1/2
    tsp
    vanilla extract
  • 3
    cups
    sifted cake flour (all-purpose flour works)
Instructions

Cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy.

Add salt and vanilla and beat well.

Then add eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition.

Stir in flour (make sure you use stir setting on mixer).

Spoon mixture into a greased and floured 10" tube pan (bundt pan).

Bake at 325 degrees about 1 1/2 hours.

By: Ruby Hardigree via O\\'neal Self

Published on 09/03/2013