Does anyone have a recipe that they have used before and is definately good? I need to make one for Easter and I'm scared to use one of the billions online because I don't trust them to work!

Have you checked allrecipes.com? I once made one from there that was fabulous! That was before my cake days, so I have no idea which one it was anymore - sorry!

Smack Your Momma Pound Cake recipes:

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-48408-.html

Elvis Presley's Favorite Pound Cake recipe:

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/232642?skipDetails=true&firstReviewIndex=0&lastReviewIndex=67

HTH

This is the recipe I have used for many years. Make sure you use a 10 inch tube pan. Makes a large cake.

Cream Cheese Pound Cake  ------        3 C. sugar,  1 8 oz. pk cream cheese,  3 C. Plain flour,  1 teasp. vanilla,      3 sticks margarine,  6 egg yolks,  1/4 t.easp. soda  6 egg whites beaten stiff.      Cream marg, sugar, & cream cheese. Add egg yolks one at a time, beating after each addition. Add flour, soda, and flavoring. Fold in beaten egg whites. Grease and flour well a large 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 325 deg. for 1 1/2 hours or til done.

Thank ya'll! That last recipe looks great...although I can't use a 10 inch pound cake...I'm doing square, tinted layers like the pastel-striped cake in the new Martha Stewart Weddings. Have you seen it? It's GORGEOUS...would be so pretty as an Easter cake. It's a coconut pound cake in the magazine, but my husband hates coconut, so I wanted to do cream cheese. Do you think it will still bake if divided between small square pans?

This is my favorite cake recipe ever!

Cream Cheese Poundcake

1 1/2 cups butter, softened 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
3 cups sugar 6 large eggs 1 1/2 t. vanilla 3 cups flour 1/8 t. salt

Beat butter and cream cheese for 2 minutes, until mixture is creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating 5-7 minutes until very light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until yellow disappears. Add vanilla, mixing well. Combine flour and salt, gradually add to butter mixture, beating at low speed until blended after each addition. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan. Fill a 2 cup, ovenproof measuring cup with water and place in oven next to tube pan.

Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Cool in pan for 15 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely.

The recipe posted by JodieF is an excellent recipe. I found it in an old issue of Southern Living magazine, and have used it for the past several years. Seriously good cake. (Bake at 300 for 1 hr and 40 min.) You can also add 1/4. cup of cocoa powder to the flour before combining with egg mixture for a milk chocolate pound cake. Great with fresh berries and whipped cream.

yep.....it's from Southern Living...some of my very favorite recipes are theirs.
I made one for tomorrow.....I'll slice strawberries and whip some sweetened whipped cream. Delicious!