Southern Cream Cheese Pound Cake
From "African-American Holiday Traditions" by Antoinette
Broussard (Citadel Press, $22.50).
105 MINUTES
15 minutes to make
90 minutes to bake
3 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
3 cups sugar
3 sticks butter (3/4 pound), softened
1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
6 eggs
Juice and grated peel of 1 lemon, mixed together
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Sift flour, salt, and baking soda 3 times. Cream sugar, butter,
and cream cheese. Add eggs 1 at a time, as you continue to mix. Add
lemon and vanilla. Then, gradually spoon in flour 1 cup at a time
mixing slowly and thoroughly. Pour mixture into a tube pan; place in
a cold oven and bake at 300 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. Do not open the
oven before baking time has expired.
Makes 16 servings.
Per serving: 445 calories; 24 g fat (14 g saturated fat; 49
percent calories from fat); 53 g carbohydrates; 142 mg cholesterol;
397 mg sodium; 5 g protein; 0.4 g fiber.
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