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Margaret's Vanilla-Butternut Cake

ombaker
By: ombaker
Posted 02/21/10 • Last updated 02/21/10 • 526 views • 9 comments

Posted by ombaker

This is the perfect carving cake. It was given to me by a co-worker. I didn't have the butternut flavor so I just used vanilla, I think you could also use coffee creamer.

Ingredients

  • 2 sticks room temp Butter or Margarine 1/2 cup Crisco Shortening 3 cups Sugar 1/4 tsp Salt 5 large Eggs 3 cups AP Flour 1 small can Evaporated Milk 1 Tbsp Vanilla Butternut Flavor (or whatever)

Instructions

DO NOT preheat oven! Prepare 2 10" cake pans Cream shortening and butter with sugar and salt on medium-high till light and fluffy Add eggs 1 at a time beating well after each addition Pour evaporated milk into a measuring cup and add enough water to make it 1 cup of liquid. Add the flavoring to the liquid Beginning and ending with flour add alternately with liguid to creamed mixture Pour into prepared pans Place in cold oven and bake at 325 for approx 45minutes Cake is done when tester comes out clean

Comments (9)

debs08 4/16/10 at 1:37pm
What is AP flour
atrmom3 4/29/10 at 2:40pm
all purpose flour
NavyMom2007 7/12/10 at 5:33am
Place in a cold oven?
suemillerbuckley 10/2/10 at 6:15pm
This recipe was the same exact pound cake cake both my Grandmother and Great Grandmother used and my family still uses today. This original recipe surfaced actually by McCormick and was in magaines and even on the box of the Mccormick Vanilla Butternut flavoring over 70 years ago. Definitely the BEST pound Cake I have ever tasted in my life and the Vanilla Butternut flavoring is definitely what sets this apart from other pound cakes. While this is still prob. yummy using any vanilla flavoring, the butternut vanilla is beyond anything words could explain!!!
qisyaz 4/21/11 at 2:09am
how many litre is i small can of evaporated milk??
homemaderachel 4/30/11 at 3:43pm
This is also my grandmother's recipe - we call it Buboo's cold oven pound cake and it is definitely the best i've ever had. It's always a hit! Friends ask for the recipe frequently. It is also wonderful with any citrus flavoring instead of the butternut, I have made this cake in countless variations and it has taken every flavoring well.
blue329 6/2/11 at 7:16am
Do you have to make this recipe "as a pound cake" or could you possibly pour batter in two round pans to make a layered cake or make as a sheet cake? I am wondering how it would turn out being baked in shallow pans like these. Has anyone tried?
luv2cook721 2/20/12 at 6:50pm
Amazing recipe! I will definitely make this a favorite for my cakes! Used orange flavoring & YUM!
Veron09 3/3/12 at 1:49pm
Can I add nuts in this cake?
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