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Ivy Odom's Favorite Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Ingredients
  

  • 1 block of cream cheese (room temperature)
  • 3 sticks unsalted butter, softened
  • 3 cups Swan's Down cake flour
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • ½ tsp lemon extract

Instructions
 

  • Mix 1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 stick butter, and 2 eggs in electric mixer until well blended. As batter is mixing, add in another cup of both flour and sugar, 2 eggs, and 1 stick of butter.
  • Add in the last of the flour, sugar, butter, and eggs once the second round is mixed in well.
  • Finally, add in the cream cheese and lemon extract and beat until smooth. Pour batter into a greased bundt pan and place in cool oven. Bake at 300 degrees for 2 hours, or until fork placed in center comes out clean.11