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12.18.2012

tasty tuesday: granny's pound cake

Did ya miss me last week? Did you notice I was gone? :)
It was a busy week, and by the time it was over I didn't even realize I had forgotten to post!
But I'm back today with another sweet treat (it's that time of year ya know!)
This time it's my grandmother's pound cake recipe.
My mom, one of her sisters, and I got together this weekend for our 7th annual memorial pound cake baking.
We've been baking pound cakes every Christmas since 2005.
It's a twist on an old tradition, that it just wouldn't feel like Christmas without.
My granny never had much money, and with 6 kids, and 15 grandkids, she turned to her baking talents for Christmas gifts.
Every Christmas she would spend days, weeks probably, baking a minimum of 2 pound cakes for each family..
and then extras for friends & family.
It was a definite labor of love.
In 2005 when she passed away my mom & aunts decided to carry on making them in her memory.
Her birthday was December 15th and she LOVED Christmas.
So we do this to celebrate her life & her memory.





plain pound cake:-1 cup crisco
-1 stick butter
-3 cups sugar
-5 eggs
-3 cups flour
-1/2 tsp baking powder
-1/2 tsp salt
-1 cup milk
-3 tsp vanilla

preheat oven to 300.

1. mix flour, baking powder & salt. set aside
2. in separate bowl cream crisco, butter & sugar. add eggs, one at a time.
3. combine dry mixture with wet mixture.
4. add milk & vanilla.
5. pour into greased loaf pan. bake 1 hour & 15 minutes.


chocolate pound cake

-1 cup crisco
-1 stick butter
-3 cups sugar
-5 eggs
-1 tsp vanilla
-1 1/2 cups milk
-3 cups flour
-1/2 tsp salt
-1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
-1/2 tsp baking powder

preheat oven to 300.

1. mix flour, salt, cocoa powder & baking powder. set aside.
2. in separate bowl cream crisco, butter & sugar. add eggs.
3. combine wet mixture & dry mixture.
4. add milk & vanilla.
5. pour into greased loaf pan. bake 1 hour & 15 minutes.

marbled pound cake:

1. make one of each of the above recipes.
2. in greased loaf pan alternate dropping batter by spoonfuls in bottom of pan. (should look like a checkerboard)
3. for the next layer drop alternating colors on top of the first layer.
4. once pan is full, take butter knife & insert into pan swirling batters. DO NOT OVER MIX!
5. bake @ 300 for 1 hour & 15 minutes.
We typically make one of each batch. Then mix them together. Each batch makes of Vanilla & Chocolate makes two loafs, together they make four. Enjoy!

Happy Holidays!!
xo-k

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