Cold Oven Pound Cake

Description

An old-fashioned pound cake that goes into a cold oven before baking.

Ingredients

• 1 cup margarine
• ½ cup shortening
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup milk
• 3 cups all-purpose flour

Instructions

1. Do not preheat the oven. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
2. Cream together sugar
3. margarine
4. and shortening in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time
5. mixing well after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Add flour alternately with milk
6. beating briefly after each addition. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
7. Place in the cold oven
8. then set the temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean
9. about 1 1/2 hours. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes
10. then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Total Time: 2 hrs

Servings: 16