Pound Cake

We are some lucky girls. Their dad is in a baking mood this week. Imagine this is the second cake we've had! After he came in from cutting the grass this morning, he ate the breakfast I fixed for him, and after a while he decided to bake us a cake. This is also a super cake. Now this, I have the recipe for, but I have to tell you, when I've made it, it never comes out quite like this. So you've been warned:



1 cup Butter, room temperature
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups granulated sugar
5 large Eggs
1/2 tsp. Baking powder
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup Milk
2 Tbsp. Vanilla extract

Cream butter and shortening. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the baking powder and flour and add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour, and beating well after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes; invert onto serving plate.