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Butter Pound Cake Recipe

This is a really rich pound cake which is tasteful alone or with ice cream or a fruit topping such as peaches. This is probably one of the best if not the best pound cake recipe I have ever made. I have made cream cheese, sour cream,buttermilk, etc and whipping cream still seems to be the best to me. This cake is very moist, easy to make and very delicious. Oh, my goodness talk about exceptional! This cake is so incredibly good! These classic cakes have a dense crumb, a tender, moist texture and a rich, buttery taste.Bakers use the creaming method-beating the fat and sugar together to hold air bubbles-and chemical liveners like baking powder, rather than beaten eggs like sponge cakes and angel food cakes to create their fine texture. Some recipes also call for chemical liveners baking powder or baking soda, milk, buttermilk or sour cream, flavoring extracts, and a pinch of salt to heighten the flavors. Over-mixing, which would cause the cookies to spread flat when baking, is hard to do when creaming butter and sugar for a cake. Since there are so few ingredients in these cakes, use high-quality butter and pure flavoring extracts, measure with perfect accuracy and follow the recipe directions to achieve the best results. This is my favorite style of pound cake, resulting in a firm cake that is great for cubing, slicing or snacking it's highly addictive and is great for dipping in ganaches and creams or sauces. Butter Pound cake recipe

Ingredients 1 cup butter 1 8-ounce package cream cheese 6 eggs 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 2-1/4 cups sugar 1/4 cup poppy seed 2 teaspoons vanilla Directions 1. Allow butter, cream cheese, and eggs to stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, grease and lightly flour a 10-inch tube pan; set aside. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. 2. In a large mixing bowl beat butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer on medium to high speed about 30 seconds or until softened. Gradually add sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating on medium speed about 5 minutes or until very light and fluffy. Add poppy seed and vanilla. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating on low to medium speed 1 minute after each addition and scraping bowl frequently. Gradually add flour mixture, beating on low speed just until combined. Pour batter into prepared pan. 3. Bake in a 325 degree F oven about 75 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 15 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool thoroughly on wire rack. Drizzle Lemon Icing over cake. Makes 16 servings. Gooey Butter Cake Recipe Easy butter cake recipe that yields moist and delicious butter cake, with drool some butter cake pictures. Those butter cake slices look so appetizing with afternoon coffee. For the crust: 1 (18.5 ounce)box of yellow cake mix 1 egg 1 stick (1/2 cup) of butter, melted For the Filling: 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 pound box of confectioners sugar 1 stick (1/2 cup) of butter, melted Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 13x9x2-inch glass baking dish with Non-Stick cooking spray. In a large mixing bowl, mix together the cake mix, the egg, and the melted butter. Pat the dough down into the bottom of the glass baking dish. Set aside. In the same bowl, mix together softened cream cheese until smooth. Add the eggs and vanilla. Mix in the confectioner's sugar. Beat well and then slowly add the butter until all ingredients are well mixed. Pour onto crust and bake for 40 to 50 minutes. When you go to take it out of the oven, it will seem awfully "gooey" in the center but it will set up a bit as it cools. More tips at http://www.Teegoes.com

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Timothy Samuel I live in Wilmington,De enjoy writing on many topics from food to travleing. And you hope my articles be enjoyable and helpfull to all.

Do it yourself Cupcake Wedding Cakes

The do-it-your-selfer can save tons of money and have great success using these cupcake ideas for weddings:

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<li>You can make a beautiful cupcake tower with no cake decorating experience.

<li>Save on time and money.

<li>Mistakes don't effect a whole cake. If you're unhappy with a particular cupcake, don't use it. Make extra cupcakes for this purpose.

<li>If you are bringing cupcakes in to a catering hall, you save on the cake-cutting fee.

<li>You can offer a variety of cake flavors to your guests.

<li>You can make a small cupcake tower for each table and save the thousands of dollars spent on floral centerpieces.

<li>You can offer your guests a second helping, if you like!
</ul>

The cupcake tower consists of one of more different designs on the cupcakes, displayed on stacked cake boards. Even the simplest designs are enhanced by adding votives, fresh or silk flowers, or tulle alongside the cupcakes on each tier.

In advance, you will need to decide on the design of your cupcake stand and the decorations you will put on the cupcakes.

<b>Assembling the Cupcake Stands:</b>

Even though you can vary the size of your cake boards, the higher the tier, the smaller the cake board. To serve 150 - 200 people, you will need 2 cupcake stands. For each one, create a 4-tier stand with cake boards, starting with 16", then 12", 9" and finally 6". The boards can be square or you can cut out a shape, if you like, by purchasing large pieces of foamcore. Your local craft store will have most of the things you need. Cover each board with non-stick foil, which comes in different colors. The edge of each cake board can be trimmed with ribbon to match the color scheme. Use either craft glue or hat pins to secure it.

In between the boards, there are a number of things you can do to enhance the display. You can purchase clear vases (wide enough and sturdy enough to support the tiers above) and fill the vases with flower petals, glass marbles, seashells,etc. Very inexpensively, you can also use flower pots in between the cake boards. Just spray paint them and tie a pretty ribbon around them. Check the sturdiness of your cupcake stand before the big day to prevent mishaps.

You can offer 2 flavors of cake to your guests by placing each flavor on its own stand. Let your guests know with a hand-written sign you place on the table in front of each one. You don't have to fit all the cupcakes on the stands. Placing them on the cake table around the cupcake stands enhances the display.

<b>Decorating the Cupcake Stands:</b>

Decorations should be placed towards the center of each cake board so guests can easily retrieve a cupcake without disturbing the arrangement. Extend the decorations out on to the cake table and intermingle them with the cupcakes.

<b>Cupcake Ideas:</b>

If you know how to decorate cakes, you can make royal icing flowers. They will keep in an airtight container for up to 2 weeks. These decorations can also be purchased. Or try adding molded chocolate decoration in hearts, seashells, or flowers. Craft stores carry chocolate in all different colors.

You can easily make the cupcakes more elaborate by adding silver non-pariels, pearl beads, ribbon, small plastic wedding bells, or other wedding decorations sold for making favors.

<b>Cupcake Decorating Ideas:</b>

Consider incorporating your wedding colors and theme into the cupcake decorations and the cake stand.Add a special touch to the cupcakes by icing them with a pastry bag fitted with a cake decorating tip. Once the icing hardens, the decorations won't stick. If you work with someone else, have your helper add the decorations after each cupcake is iced. If you are working alone, you will need to keep icing handy to add fresh icing on top of the cupcake before adding the decorations. 

<b>Transporting the Cupcakes:</b>

Any sturdy boxes will work fine for transporting the cupcakes. Separate them with balls of tissue paper to prevent them from falling over and bumping into one another.

Use your imagination to create unique cupcake ideas that will be the hit of the wedding!

About the Author

Theresa Happe is a baker, cake decorator and author of Cake-Decorating- Corner.com, where you will find many more cake decorating ideas.