Southwest Georgia Pound Cake

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Alright, let's talk about pound cakes. This is one of the favorite pound cakes

of the folks that live in southwest Georgia where I was born. I was born in Albany, Georgia

and a lot of people over there make these cakes. And I'm going to start with two sticks of real butter

at room temperature. Now I'm going to add three cups of sugar

And I'm going to beat these together until they're nice and creamy. All right, now I'm going to add the eggs

All right, that's nice and creamy now

All right, now I've got three cups of all-purpose flour, and I have a half a teaspoon of baking

powder and I going to give those a quick sift together And that was baking powder now not soda

All right, now we're going to add our dry ingredients to our creamed mixture

We're going to start with flour and end with flour. If we started with the heavy cream and ended with cream

it would almost make our batter look like it had broken. And I'm going to add a teaspoon of vanilla

Alright, now I'm going to take a Bundt Cake pan and I'm going to spray it

because you want to make sure that your pound cakes always come out and

don't leave chunks in the pan. And I'm going to dust this with a little flour

We just going to pour our batter around And we gonna start this cake off now in a cold oven

And we're gonna bake it for an hour and 15 minutes. And you'll want to just take your spatula and level out your cake like that

Now like I said, we're not going to turn our oven on until we put our cake in the oven

When we put the cake in the oven, we're going to turn it to 325 by an hour and 15 minutes

And it's going to be so light and rich and dense at the same time

I was telling y'all earlier that Southerners love their pound cake. But we also love doing different things with it

Like our toast, buttering it and frying it up in the black skillet

Where there's just lots of things that you can do with a pound cake

besides just eating it straight up. Personally, I love my strawberry shortcake made with fresh

pound cake You know you can get the little cups in the grocery store that have the indented center and that what my mama used to use a lot of times and they were perfectly yummy but nothing absolutely nothing takes a place of real shortcake

so I'm gonna take our cake and I'm gonna just pour fresh strawberries and that

juice over it really get get that juice all over it to soak into that piece of

of cake. And then I'm going to top it with fresh whipped cream. And you've got the best

strawberry shortcake you've ever put in your mouth. And another flavoring that I really

really love is the flavor of lemon curd. I just love it. Now, you can make your own lemon curd

or you can do as I've done today and just use a store-bought

And I'm just going to let that lemon curd just drip all over that piece of pound cake

And then I'm going to top him with just a little fresh zest

These are just a couple of my favorite ways and I'm sure once you make that pound cake

that you're going to come up with plenty of other ways yourself