Saturday, June 22, 2013

Easy Cream cheese pound cake (box recipe)


The original recipe is from Duncan Hines website. It is a keeper of a cake recipe. Enjoy!

Ingredients

Duncan Hines Butter Cake mix
Cream cheese- 8 oz
Eggs - 4
Canola oil - 1/2 cup
Hot water - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Butter - 2 tbsp
Vanilla - 1 tbsp
Method

Heat oven to 325ºF.
Beat cream cheese, granulated sugar, butter, oil and vanilla in a large bowl with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each until blended. Gradually beat in flour and hot water on low speed until blended.  

Pour the batter into a greased bundt pan.


Bake for about an hour at 350, until it is light brown and starts to pull away from the sides.

Enjoy!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Mango Pound cake


It's summer and mangoes are abundant. If you like mangoes, then you will definitely like this cake.  It's hard to believe that finely chopped mangoes can give a homemade pound cake this much flavor. The cake was delicious!

Ingredients

All-purpose Flour (Maida) - 2 cups
Baking powder - 11/2 tsp
PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese - 8 oz 
Butter - 3/4 cup (11/2 stick) 
Sugar - 2 cups
Eggs - 4 
Vanilla - 1 tbsp 
Mangoes - 2

Method
 
Heat oven to 325ºF.

Beat cream cheese, butter, granulated sugar and vanilla in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each until blended. Gradually beat in flour and baking powder on low speed until blended.
 
Pour 1/3 of the cake batter into 12-cup tube pan sprayed with cooking spray. Toss mangoes with remaining flour; stir into remaining cake batter. Pour over batter in pan.


Bake for an 1 hour and 10 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool cake in the pan for 10 min. Loosen cake from sides of pan with knife. Invert cake onto wire rack; gently remove pan. 


Enjoy!