Mama's Pound Cake

After experimenting with many different pound cake recipes, this is the BEST I've found...

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan
• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
• 3 cups sugar
• 5 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
• 1/2 teaspoon fine salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

Paula Deen's Recipe

Black Russian Cake

Ingredients

• Cake
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• 1 (18.25 ounce) package moist yellow cake mix
• 1 (5.9 ounce) package instant chocolate pudding mix
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup vodka
• 1/4 cup Kahlua
• 3/4 cup water
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Glaze

• 1/4 cup Kahlua
• 1 cup confectioners' sugar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
2. In a large bowl, combine the cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, white sugar, oil, vodka, 1/4 cup Kahlua, and water. Beat for four minutes. Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan.
3. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool on a rack.
4. Make a glaze by combining 1/4 cup Kahlua and 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar. Turn cake over on a cake plate. Poke cake several times with a fork. Cover with glaze, and dust with remaining 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar.