Aunt Margie's Pound Cake

Submitted by Maria Salvatore

Enjoy! Thanks to Aunt Margie and the memory of her wonder cakes!

Ingredients

3 sticks of butter
3 cups of sugar
6 eggs
3 cups of flour (sifted with baking powder)
1 tsp. of baking powder
2 tsp. of vanilla extract
1 tsp. of almond extract (if you do lemon icing, use lemon extract instead)
1 cup of milk

Glaze

1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
1 tsp. of almond extract (or lemon for lemon icing)
5 tsp. of water

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2. Cream together butter and sugar

3. Add eggs one at a time

4. Add dry ingredients and milk, gradually

5. Add extracts

6. Grease and flour a tube pan

7. Bake for 1.15 hours

8. Let cool for 5-10 minutes before removing from the pan

9. For the glaze, sift together ingredients, adding water last as needed for spreadability

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