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*.....