Claudia's Pound Cake

Claudia Copsey's recipe from Southern Living

• Butter or Margarine - 1 1/2 cup (softened)

• Cream cheese - 1 8oz block (softened)

• Sugar - 3 cups

• Eggs - 6 (large)

• Flour - 3 cups

• Salt - 1/8 teaspoon

• Vanilla extract - 1 tablespoon

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees

2. Beat butter & cream cheese with electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar while beating. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until yellow disappears. 

3. Combine flour and salt. Gradually add to step #1's mixture beating at a low speed.  Stir in vanilla. 

4. Grease and flour a bundt or tube pan.

5. Spoon batter into the pan.

6. Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 35 minutes.

7. Check with a toothpick until it comes out clean, adjust time as needed.

8. Cool in a pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. 

9. Remove cake from pan and sit it directly onto the wire rack to finish cooling. 

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