SHARE-A-LEASE POWDERED SUGAR POUND CAKE
By Gloria Pitzer, as seen in… Gloria Pitzer’s Cookbook – Best Of The Recipe Detective (Balboa Press; Jan. 2018, p. 244). [A revised reprint of Gloria Pitzer’s Better Cookery Cookbook (Secret RecipesTM, St. Clair, MI; May 1983, 3rd Edition).]
Make a Sundae Pie with this, rather than brownie squares, the way Hedge’s Wigwam once did in Royal Oak, Michigan during the early 1950s.
INGREDIENTS:
1-lb powdered sugar
1-lb butter
6 eggs
3 cups flour
1 tsp almond or lemon extract
1 tsp vanilla
INSTRUCTIONS:
Cream together powdered sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add 2 eggs and 1 cup flour, beating 4 to 6 minutes on medium speed with electric mixer. Beat in extract and vanilla. Then beat in 2 more eggs and another cup of flour. Beat for 3 minutes, then beat in 2 more eggs (total of 6 eggs) with one last cup of flour (total of 3 cups).
Beat 5 minutes, scraping down sides and bottom of bowl frequently. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan (or two 7-inch bread loaf pans, greased and floured as well). Bake at 325°F, about 65 minutes for the tube pan, or until it tests done by inserting a long thin wooden skewer [in] the cake to the bottom of the pan – if it comes out clean, remove cake from oven to cool on wire rack.
Bake bread loaf pans for 45 to 50 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of each comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack for 45 minutes, before removing cake from pans to serving plates. Dust top(s) of cake(s) in powdered sugar while still warm. Serves 8 to 10. Refrigerate, well-covered, up to a week. Freezes well.
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