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Article: Recipe doctor: ; Cream cheese pound cake lite for New Year's
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- January 2, 2000
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Someone sent me a pound cake recipe which called for a whopping 3
sticks of butter and 6 eggs.
Part of what makes a pound cake a "pound" cake is the pound or so
of butter added. It has to have the texture and taste distinctive of
a pound cake.
I've tried lightening up pound cakes before, and they always
turned out pretty good, but never fabulous.
Maybe I just didn't have the right recipe to start out with.
But the recipe this reader sent me looked like a good prospect,
with its 3 sticks of butter, 8 ounces of cream cheese, 3 cups of
sugar, 6 eggs and cake flour.
I replaced 3/4 cup of the butter with light corn syrup, still
leaving 3/4 cup butter. I kept 3 of the eggs and replaced the lost 3 ...
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Article: Stock's Pound Cake
Philadelphia Weekly;
February 22, 2006 ;
301 words
......pointed over to the table, where the pound cake loaf lay ignominiously, icing side down...alcohol was involved, but it's rare that a pound cake can elicit this type of reaction. Then...Stock's cool, velvety version is a rare pound cake. First of all, it's a pound cake ...
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