Best 7 The Polish Church Pound Cake Recipes

POLISH POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Grease and flour a bundt pan.
• Cream margarine, shortening, sugar and salt.
• Add eggs one at a time beating after each addition.
• Add milk and then flour.
• Fold in vanilla flavoring then fold in cherries and nuts.
• Pour batter into the pan. Start in the middle of a cold oven and bake for 2 to 2 1/2 hours at 300 degrees. Do not open door while baking for at least the first 1 1/2 hours.
• Cake is ready when the outside is a dark golden brown and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Remove from pan immediately. When cooled, you may dust cake with powdered sugar before serving.

CLASSIC POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Place a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour the pan of your choice.
• Sift the flour and salt into a medium bowl and set aside. Whisk the whole eggs, yolks, milk, and the vanilla together in a 4-cup measuring cup or bowl, and set aside. In a heavy duty mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter at a medium speed until smooth, about 1 minute. Gradually pour in the sugar, 1/4 cup at a time, to cream and lighten the butter. (This should take about 3 minutes.) Once all the sugar is added, turn the machine off and scrape down the sides of the bowl and paddle with a rubber spatula. Continue to beat the butter mixture until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add the lemon zest and beat for 30 seconds more.
• Turn the machine off and scrape the sides of the bowl again to assure even incorporation of the ingredients. Turn the mixer to its lowest setting. Gradually pour in the flour, 1/4 cup at a time, and beat the batter for 30 seconds. Gradually add the egg mixture. (It should take about a minute to pour all of it into the batter.) Remove the bowl from the mixer, scrape any batter off the paddle, and finish stirring the egg mixture into the batter with a rubber spatula. Take care not to over mix the batter, but make sure that you scrape the bottom of the bowl to evenly incorporate all of the ingredients.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and smooth over the top with a spatula. Put the cake in the oven and reduce the temperature to 325 degrees F. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, and the top springs back when lightly pressed, about 1 hour and 30 minutes, for the tube or Bundt pans; and 50 minutes to 1 hour for loaf pans.
• Cool the cake, in the pan, on a rack, for 10 to 15 minutes. Invert the cake onto a flat plate or cardboard. Re-invert the cake and set it right side up on the rack to cool completely. If not serving the same day, wrap in plastic wrap and store at room temperature, for 4 to 5 days or freeze for 1 month.

EASTER LAMB-SHAPED POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375 F.

THE POLISH CHURCH POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream Crisco, margarine, sugar and salt.
• Add eggs one at a time and beat.
• Add flour and milk alternately, ending with flour.
• Add flavoring. Add nuts. Add cherries cut in half.
• Bake in greased and floured tube pan or Bundt pan.
• Bake 1 hour and 45 minutes (or longer) at 300 oven.
• START IN COLD OVEN. DO NOT OPEN DOOR WHILE BAKING.
• Remove from pan immediately. Do not ice.

POLISH POUND CAKE RECIPE - (4.2/5)

Steps:

• Cream shortening well. Add sugar one cup at a time and cream after each. Add eggs one at a time and cream after each. Add flour and salt alternately with milk and flavoring ending with flour. Add cherries and nuts to last half cup of flour and mix well. Put into greased and floured large angel food cake pan. Put into cold oven on lower shelf. Turn heat to 300° and bake 1 hour 45 minutes to 2 hours. Let cake stand right side up about ½ hour before removing from pan. Cool on rack. This cake is rich and freezes well. When serving, do not cut into thick slices.

CHERRY NUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream the butter and sugar together.
• Add the eggs one at a time, mixing after each one.
• Add sour cream, vanilla, and remaining ingredients.
• Mix just until moist.
• Pour into a greased 10" round pan.
• Bake at 350° for one hour.

HOMEMADE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 12-cup fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Place sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl. Cream together using an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, or a hand mixer, on medium speed, until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating for 45 seconds after each addition. Add vanilla extract and beat for 30 seconds.
• Combine flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg in a medium bowl. Add 1/2 of the dry ingredients to the butter and egg mixture, mixing on low speed, until just blended. Add 1/2 cup milk and beat on low speed until just blended. Scrape the sides of the bowl with a spatula between each addition. Repeat with remaining dry ingredients and milk.
• Pour batter into the prepared baking pan, filling no more than 2/3 full. Smooth the top with a spoon or a spatula.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and the cake is just starting to pull away from the sides of the pan, about 1 hour and 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 15 minutes before inverting onto a plate. Allow to cool completely before serving.