Folks-
I saw both strawberries and pound cake in Costco today, and thought the combination sounded good, but I wasn't willing to pay $7 for strawberries and $8 for a pound cake when I was pretty sure I had the ingredients at home. I looked up a recipe on Allrecipes, and tried the suggestion in the comments to make it moister. Here's my version.
Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
3 tbsp packed brown sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
1 tbsp milk
4 large eggs
Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit and line a 9x5 inch loaf pan with parchment paper.
Using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cream the butter, sugars, vanilla, and salt until fluffy.
Scrape down and mix in flour and baking powder.
Beat in eggs one at a time, scraping down between each, adding the milk with the second egg.
Scrape batter into the loaf pan, roughly level it, and bake for 1 HR to 1 HR 15 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Let it cool in the pan for five minutes, then lift it out using the parchment paper and allow to cool on a wire rack.
Good topped with strawberries.
Notes: I may reduce the sugar and vanilla next time, or replace vanilla with rose water.
