Cream Cheese Pound Cake
 
 
A rich pound cake, delicious alone, or topped with fruit or whipped cream.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 16
Ingredients
  • 3¾ cups whole wheat pastry flour (soft white winter wheat)
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, at room temperature
  • 2¾ cups granulated sugar
  • 6 large eggs, at room temperature
  • 5 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
  2. Grease and flour a Bundt pan. Set aside.
  3. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and sea salt. Set aside.
  4. Cream the butter, cream cheese, and sugar until light colored and fluffy, about three minutes.
  5. Add the eggs, one at a time, thoroughly combining before adding another.
  6. Mix in the vanilla extract.
  7. Add the flour mixture, scraping the mixing bowl to ensure that the two are thoroughly combined.
  8. Pour batter into prepared pan, using a bowl scraper to smooth the surface of the batter in the Bundt pan.
  9. Bake for one hour and a half hours, or until cake tester comes out clean.
  10. Cool 10 minutes in pan. Invert on wire rack, and completely cool before slicing.
  11. Dust cooled cake with powdered sugar for decoration, if desired.
Recipe by Grain Mill Wagon at https://www.grainmillwagon.com/cream-cheese-pound-cake/