Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This Oven Cold Cream Cheese Pound Cake was Bake Along #11. And this had a speciality too!! You needn't preheat your oven like you do when baking normally. Just cream and mix the ingredients and pop it into your oven....simple!

A pound cake is a type of cake traditionally baked with a pound of four main ingredients: flour, butter, eggs and sugar. You could add different flavours or dried fruits for a variation. In this pound cake, I added cream cheese too and guess what I got-- an utterly delicious and yummy yummy cake!!

Ingredients:

Cake flour- 115 gms

Butter - 115 gms, softened

Cream Cheese - 115 gms, softened

Eggs- 3

Baking powder - 3/4 tsp

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Sugar - 1 cup

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method:

NO PREHEATING the oven!!
Butter and flour a loaf pan and line the bottom with butter paper.
Place softened butter and cream cheese in a bowl and beat using an electric beater until soft and mixed well.
Add sugar and then eat for about 5 minutes on medium high speed until pale and creamy.
Add the eggs one by one and beat well for about a minute, after each addition.
Add the vanilla essence and beat well until combined.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.
Add the flour mixture into the batter and beat for about 30 seconds until the flour is fully incorporated into the batter.
Transfer the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top.
Bake in a COLD OVEN at 160C for about 60-65 mins or until the top is golden brown and a tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean.

We, at home, loved this pound cake even though it was heavy!! So, I intend to bake it as often as I can... *winks*.....

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