Cream Cheese Pound Cake

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Last Sunday my Mother-in-law asked that I make a cake for strawberry shortcakes so I tried out a new pound cake recipe. Spencer doesn't really like cake, but he'll eat anything if I tell him that there is cream cheese in it so I found this recipe on Allrecipes.com. It was really rich and really good. It tasted like a shortbread/sugar cookie in cake form. I will definitely make it for strawberry shortcake again.

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Ingredients:  

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese

1 1/2 cups butter

3 cups white sugar

6 eggs

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C) grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan. 

2. In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar gradually and beat until fluffy.
 3. Add eggs two at a time, beating well with each addition. Add the flour all at once and mix in. Add vanilla.
 4. Pour into a 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 325 degrees F (160 degrees C) for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Check for doneness at 1 hour. A toothpick inserted into center of cake will come out clean.