The worse thing about this cake is, because it goes into a cold oven, you need a tube pan that has a bottom that is NOT removable. They are hard to find in stores, but can be found on the internet. Here is what mine looks like.
3 sticks LAND O LAKES margarine (I have made it with butter and it was not as good. Can't explain it, but trust me, stick with the margarine on this one.)
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups flour (if you want chocolate pound cake, add 2 1/2 cups flour and 1/2 cup Cocoa. I don't enjoy chocolate, but this chocolate pound cake is very good. It's not real chocolatey. Is that a word?)
1 tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
2 tsp vanilla (Carolyn uses 1 tsp vanilla and 1 tsp almond flavoring. I use 2 tsp vanilla.)
1 cup milk
Cream butter mixer. Add sugar, mix. Add eggs, one at a time. In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Add slowly to mixer until all has been added. (I put my mixer on the "stir" setting and sprinkle it in as it stirs. To keep it from making such a mess, I add a spoonful or so at a time.) Once that is mixed well, add milk and vanilla. Grease pan. Pour batter into pan. Put pan into COLD oven. Turn oven to 350 degrees. Bake 50 minutes. (Carolyn originally told me to cook it 1 hour 15 min. In my oven, it is done in about 50 minutes. I would start watching at about 45 minutes to make sure it's not overcooked.)
Then of course, the kids get to lick the spoon. I gave the spoon to my girls. Tommy was way too into his Legos to stop what he was doing and come eat. His eating habits are like Heath's, not mine. My thoughts are, "Eating comes before anything...why turn down good food?" Heath's thoughts are, "Eat? No, I am not hungry". I say, "What's being hungry ever mattered?" Yes, I am aware how unhealthy my thought process is. I try to work on it daily. Anyway, enough of my faults, back to licking the spoon.
The girls sharing the spoon. They were really enjoying the batter (I can't blame them a bit!) and sharing. It is always a moment to appreciate when they are working together and not fighting. They were doing their own thing and were clueless that I was taking pictures. (A benefit to always having the camera out, they become oblivious to it!) This is the next picture.
PRICELESS!
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