Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Ingredients:
Topping: 1/2 cup Chopped Pecans, 1/4 cup Brown Sugar, 2-3 tbsp Melted Butter, 1/4 tsp Cinnamon
Cake Batter:
1 1/2 cup softened Butter
8 oz softened Cream Cheese
3 cups Sugar
6 large Eggs
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
3 cups All Purpose Flour
1/8 tsp Salt
This is, by far, the BEST pound cake I have ever had. Several family members have me make this for their birthdays every year & it’s always a Thanksgiving/Christmas dessert hit. Start with the topping. Crumble up the chopped pecans (I find they are never chopped small enough, so I usually crumble them up more – but you don’t have to.) Melt butter in a microwavable bowl – add in brown sugar & mix. Add in cinnamon & finally add in pecans. Mix until pecans are fully coated with gooey mixture. The topping is made to YOUR liking – so if you like more of the gooey mixture/sace – add more melted butter & sugar – or add more pecans for more crunch or more cinnamon for more kick. (I actually don’t even measure the topping. I just measure with my heart!)
Preheat oven to 300. For the cake batter, mix together room temperature butter & cream cheese until smooth & creamy. Gradually add in sugar for 5-7 minutes. Then add eggs ONE AT A TIME – making sure the yellow egg yolk completely disappears before adding next egg. Add vanilla.
Combine flour & salt very well in separate bowl. On low speed, slowly add SMALL portions of dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until completely combined. Batter will be SUPER thick.
Pour into greased & floured pan & sprinkle on gooey pecan topping. THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT – DON’T SKIP THIS NEXT STEP: In a separate (oven safe) container, pour 2 cups of water & place that container in the oven next to the cake to keep it from drying out. Bake for up to 1 1/2 hours – but start checking for doneness around 1 hr 15 minutes. Remove once toothpick or butter knife test is clean. (If you choose to do smaller pans – like 3 loaf pans instead of one large pan – bake for 1 hour 5 minutes – beginning to check for doneness around 50-55 minutes.)