Not only was it Elvis' favorite pound cake, it's mine as well. Been making this for years, a fine textured cake. Makes a good cake for those of you who do cake carving. I make this at Thanksgiving to look like a turkey (with little marzipan potatoes & carrots around it)
* Exported from MasterCook * WHIPPING CREAM POUND CAKE (AKA Elvis Presley's Favorite Cake) Recipe By : Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories : !! Church Baking Cakes - Bundt/Tube Cakes - Pound Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method -------- ------------ -------------------------------- 3 cups sugar 1/2 pound butter -- softned 7 eggs -- room temperature 2 1/2 cups flour -- sifted twice 1/2 cup corn starch 1 cup whipping cream -- 1/2 pint heavy cream 2 Tablespoons vanilla extract* Butter and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Thoroughly cream together sugar and butter. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition (about 1 minute after each). Add vanilla & whipping cream & corn starch. Beat for several minutes. Add half of flour & gently fold into batter. When flour is incorporated, add remaining flour & again, gently fold into batter. Pour batter into prepared pan. Set in COLD oven and turn heat to 350 degrees. Bake 60 to 70 minutes, until a sharp knife inserted in cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 5 minutes. Remove from pan and cool thoroughly. *Or use 1 TBSP vanilla & 1 TBSP a blend of other flavors such as lemon, almond, orange, brandy, rum, coconut, coffee, etc. If you have a habit of dropping your cakes on the counter to take air bubbles out of the batter DON'T -- that will deflate the cake. A very fine grained but lighter than usual pound cake. I put a pan of water in the bottom of the oven to keep cakes moist, this increases baking time by about 10-15 minutes if you choose to do this. (I would encourage it) Makes a very nice basic cake. In the summer I serve this with sweetened pureed strawberries, in the winter with Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting -- although the cake is rich & only a sprinkling of powdered sugar is all that is needed. Source: "adapted from Buffolo Evening News" S(Formatted for Mastercook): "Deirdre Dee (zosha)" - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 5605 Calories; 222g Fat (35.2% calories from fat); 78g Protein; 841g Carbohydrate; 9g Dietary Fiber; 1981mg Cholesterol; 2377mg Sodium. Exchanges: 15 1/2 Grain(Starch); 5 1/2 Lean Meat; 39 1/2 Fat; 40 Other Carbohydrates. Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for yourself. Deirdre Dee (zosha) ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAKE-RECIPE/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAKE-RECIPE/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: cake-recipe-dig...@yahoogroups.com cake-recipe-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: cake-recipe-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/