Cream Cheese Pound Cake

[waterwitch]

I get a lot of requests for this cake...

3 cups of sugar
1 1/2 cups of butter
1 (8-oz) package of cream cheese
6 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups cake flour

Cream sugar, butter, and cream cheese together. Add eggs one at a time,
beating well after each addition. Stir in extract. Add flour and beat
well. Pour into greased and floured 10-inch tube or Bundt pan. Place in
COLD OVEN. Turn temperature on to 275 degrees and bake for 1 1/2 to 2
hours, or until cake tests done.

You're SURE to love it!

 

[launderess]

Interesting Recipe

Just happened to make a banana/sour cream cheesecake last night. Was supposed to do it for Easter to take for a family dinner but couldn't find my springform pans...

Am sure your cake is delicous but why so little cream cheese and so much cake flour? Know some cheesecake recipes call for small amounts of flour or cornstarch to firm them up, but others simply call for a blend or ratio of egg yolks with whites. Also why so much sugar?

I prefer dense "NY style" chessecakes, such as the famous (or infamous) Junior's. That cake calls for four (4) pacakges of Philly cream cheese.

Have also found more and more prefer crustless cheesecakes, at least when they are of the creamy variety.

 

[magic_clean]

Excellent

pound cake....it's always a hit. So few ingredients make a great cake. Have a virtually identical recipe, except calls for all purpose flour & bakes in a preheated 300f oven. Bakes perfectly every time. Waterwitch, I've added your variation to the recipe card!

L.P.

 

[franksdad]

Sounds wonderful!

I'll be sure to try this one.  Thanks for sharing.  Jim

 

[kevin313]

Anything with 3 sticks of butter in it wins me over! This is one I will try!

Thanks,
Kevin

 

[westingman123]

I'm all over this one.

 

[mrb627]

Hmmm...

Lots of sugar...

Do you think this batter could be divided between 2 loaf pans as opposed to a round tube?

Malcolm

 

[norgeway]

Loaf Pans!

Im sure it would work fine as I have made several different pound cake recipes in loaf pans, you will have to adjust your baking time, probably 45 or 50 minutes instead of over an hour.

 

[franksdad]

Ooh!  baked in leaf pans, sliced and topped with Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla ice cream and Hershey's syrup!  Hot dang!

 

[launderess]

Cream Cheese "Pound" Cake

Just noticed that bit. Nevermind previous comments then! *LOL*

Pound cakes in loaf pans:

Oh yes, that is my preferred method as the cake is easily wrapped for storage or transport. Bundt pans do make for a nicer display, especially if one of the deeply fluted or otherwise patterned designs.

If the batter is especially rich I like to bake pound cakes in small bundt pans, then freeze after baking and totally cooling. I wrap them well in cling film and then use the Tila Foodsaver. This allows one to bake several cakes and not have to finish off a large one before it goes stale. Or, if one is really feeling generous make gifts.