Perfect Pound Cake

Note: All ingredients should be at room temp before you begin making the cake.

Here is what you need:


3 cups granulated sugar
2 sticks room temp butter
3 cups cake flour, sift after measuring (use regular flour and you'll be sorry)
8 ounces (1 cup) heavy whipping cream
6 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring
slightly less than 1 teaspoon almond flavoring
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Here is what you do:

Cream butter and sugar with a mixer in large bowl.
Add 1 egg at a time, mixing after each addition.
Add sifted flour and cream alternating (beginning with flour and ending with flour, mixing after each addition.)
Add baking powder, mix.
Add salt, mix.
Add vanilla and almond flavoring, mix.



Scrape into a buttered and sugared tube pan. (Butter the heck out of it and sugar all sides and middle really good.) Sit tube pan on a foil-lined baking sheet in case it spills over (it probably won't.)



Put in a COLD oven, middle rack.



Turn oven on to 350 degrees and set timer for 1 hour exactly. No peeking. Pull cake out, turn oven off. Sit tube pan on wire rack and let cool completely. After completely cooled, turn your perfect pound cake onto a cake pedestal and stand back and stare. Yes, you made this! Now go brag to people.