Pound Cake

One of the recipes my Nana marked in her cookbooks, was this Pound Cake recipe. It says "Good, the best ever." Now looking through this cookbook there are literally 10 different recipes for pound cake. So I decided to give this one a try. It is deliciously simple! A perfect, no frills, lemon and vanilla pound cake.

Printable Recipe

The ingredients you will need are sugar, 2 sticks of butter, cake flour, canola oil, milk, lemon juice and zest, vanilla extract, baking powder and 5 eggs. 

---

Start with two sticks of butter

Add in 1/2 cup of canola oil

Cream together the first two ingredients with 3 cups of sugar (yes, that is a lot!)

Now add in all 5 eggs, one at a time, letting each egg incorporate into the batter 

Next add in 3 1/3 cups of cake flour (yes, also a lot)

Add in 1/2 tsp of baking powder

And 1 cup milk

Now your vanilla

and lemon zest and juice

Now that your batter is done, pour batter into greased and floured bundt pan

Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Let cake cool completely before dropping out of the pan.