| Tasty
Treats to Serve at Your Reception
Are you looking for just the right food to serve
at your reception? Try some of these tasty treats to see if they
tantalize your taste buds.
Pound Cake
About 1 1/2 cups (3/4 lb.) butter or margarine,
cut into chunks
About 2 3/4 cups sifted cake flour
3 1/4 cups powdered sugar
6 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1. Butter and flour a 10-cup plain or decorative
tube cake pan.
2. In a bowl, mix 1 1/2 cups butter and the sugar;
beat with a mixer at high speed until fluffy, about 8 minutes,
scraping bowl occasionally.
3. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating to blend after
each addition.
4. Add 2 3/4 cups flour and the vanilla. Stir
to mix, then beat at high speed until well blended. Scrape batter
into tube cake pan.
5. Bake at 325 degrees until cake begins to pull
from pan sides and springs back when lightly pressed in the center,
1 hour and 10 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes. Let cool about
10 minutes. Invert cake onto a plate. Serve warm or cool, cut
into thin slices.
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