♥ homemade or store bought poundcake
♥ strawberries
♥ whipped cream (cool whip preferably)
Pound Cake
For home made pound cake and whipped cream
♥ 2 cups (455 g) unsalted butter softened ♥ 3 ½ cups (700 g) granulated sugar
♥ 6 large whole eggs
♥ 6 large egg yolks
♥ 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
♥ 1 teaspoon salt
♥ 3 ½ cups (438 g) all-purpose (plain) flour
Instructions
(if you have already bought a pound cake you can skip steps 1-7)
STEP 1
♥ Preheat your oven to 350F (175C) and generously grease (with shortening) and flour a 10 inch tube pan or 12 cup bundt pan. Shake out excess flour and set aside.
STEP 2
♥ Place your butter in a large bowl (this recipe makes a lot of batter! I recommend using a stand mixer if you have one) and use an electric mixer to beat the butter until it is creamy and smooth.
STEP 3
♥ Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the sugar. Beat until the ingredients are well combined and light and fluffy (about 1-2 minutes).
STEP 4
♥ In a separate, medium-sized bowl, combine your eggs, additional egg yolks, vanilla extract, and salt. Use a fork to lightly beat the eggs and yolks until all egg yolks are broken up and salt and vanilla are incorporated.
STEP 5
♥ With mixer on low speed, slowly pour egg mixture into your batter, allowing it to gradually become incorporated (don’t pour all the egg mixture in at once, if you can’t manage a steady stream then add the egg mixture in about 6 parts, allowing each part to become well incorporated before adding more). Once all of the egg mixture is incorporated, pause to scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl, then increase speed to medium-high and beat for another 1-2 minutes.
STEP 6
♥ Reduce mixer speed to low and gradually, about ¼ cup at a time, add flour to the batter until all has been added. Spread batter evenly into prepared tube pan, use a spatula to smooth the surface of the batter.
STEP 7
♥ Transfer to 350F (175C) oven and bake in the center rack of your oven for an hour and ten to an hour and fifteen minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted in the center of the thickest part of the cake comes out clean or ideally with a few moist crumbs (do NOT over-bake this cake or it will be dry)
STEP 8
♥ Once the cake is done, slice and dice strawberries. After get your container and cover the bottom with cake, then layer whipped cream topped with strawberries. Continue to keep doing the same processing until filled to the top.
