Rene Taylor's Grand Champion Pound Cake

Ingredients

• ½ lb unsalted butter, softened
• 2½ cup sugar
• 7 large eggs, room temperature
• 3 cup cake flour, sifted twice
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 2 tsp pure vanilla extract

Method

1. Butter and flour a 12-cup Bundt pan.
2. Thoroughly cream together the butter and sugar. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in half the flour, then the whipping cream, then the remaining flour. Stir in the vanilla.
3. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. This is important: Set the pan in a COLD oven. (The oven must NOT be preheated!) Turn the oven control to 350 degrees. Bake 60 to 70 minutes with the rack a third of the way up from the bottom. Bake until a tester comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in the pan. Remove from the pan. Cool thoroughly on a wire cake rack, bottom side up.

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