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Brown Sugar Pound Cake

Course: Dessert
Servings: 0

Ingredients

  • 1 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1/2 cup butter softened
  • 1 lb. light brown sugar
  • 5 large eggs
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup evaporated milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Brown Sugar Glaze

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup light brown sugar packed
  • 1/4 cup evaporated milk
  • 3 cups powdered sugar sifted
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Beat shortening, butter, and brown sugar at medium speed with an electric
  • mixer 2 minutes or until creamy. Add eggs, l at a time, beating well
  • after each addition.
  • Combine flour, salt, and baking powder; add alternately with milk,
  • beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in flavoring. Pour batter
  • into a greased and floured 12-cup bundt pan.
  • Bake at 300 degrees for l hour and 15 minutes or until a long wooden pick
  • inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 15
  • minutes; remove from pan, and cool completely on a wire rack. Pour warm
  • Brown Sugar Glaze over cake. Let cake stand 30 minutes or until glaze is
  • firm.

Glaze:

  • Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in brown sugar,
  • and cook 1 minute.
  • Add milk, powdered sugar, and vanilla; whisk until creamy. Remove from
  • heat, and pour immediately over cooled cake.

Notes

NOTES : Maple flavoring may be substituted for vanilla extract in the cake.
Recipe By: Southern Living
Serving Size: 16