Cake Recipes
Arkansas Black Walnut Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 5 eggs
- 1 teaspoon rum (optional)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup chopped black walnuts
- Confectioners' sugar
Instructions
- Beat butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Add rum and vanilla extract to milk.
- Add baking powder to flour.
- Alternately add liquid and dry ingredients to batter (starting and ending with liquid).
- Stir in walnuts.
- Pour batter into a greased and floured* Bundt pan.
- Bake at 325 degrees F for about 70 minutes until cake tests done.
- Dust with confectioners' sugar when cool.
Notes
* For best results, use our Pan Release!