Elvis Presley's Favorite Pound Cake

Name: Elvis Presley's Favorite Pound Cake
Prep time: 5 h
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 7 larges eggs, at room temperature 30 minutes; 237 milliliters heavy cream; 1 teaspoons salt; 710 milliliters sugar; 237 milliliters sticks unsalted butter, softened, plus additional for buttering pan; 2 teaspoons vanilla

Elvis Presley's Favorite Pound Cake might be just the dessert you are searching for. Watching your figure? This gluten free and vegetarian recipe has 436 calories, 4g of protein, and 25g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 12. If you have butter, vanilla, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 5 hours.

Instructions

Put oven rack in middle position, but do not preheat oven.

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Oven

Generously butter pan and dust with flour, knocking out excess flour.

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Butter

All Purpose Flour

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Frying Pan

Sift together sifted flour (3 cups) and salt into a bowl. Repeat sifting into another bowl (flour will have been sifted 3 times total).

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All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Bowl

Beat together butter (2 sticks) and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes in a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment or 6 to 8 minutes with a handheld mixer.

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Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Stand Mixer

Bowl

Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, then beat in vanilla. Reduce speed to low and add half of flour, then all of cream, then remaining flour, mixing well after each addition. Scrape down side of bowl, then beat at medium-high speed 5 minutes. Batter will become creamier and satiny.

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Vanilla

Cream

All Purpose Flour

Egg

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Bowl

Spoon batter into pan and rap pan against work surface once or twice to eliminate air bubbles.

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Frying Pan

Place pan in (cold) oven and turn oven temperature to 350°F.

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Oven

Frying Pan

Bake until golden and a wooden pick or skewer inserted in middle of cake comes out with a few crumbs adhering, 1 to 1 1/4 hours. Cool cake in pan on a rack 30 minutes. Run a thin knife around inner and outer edges of cake, then invert rack over pan and invert cake onto rack to cool completely.

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Oven

Skewers