Strawberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake

• Vegetarian

• Refrigerated

  • 6 Eggs

• Baking & Spices

  • 3 cups All-purpose flour
  • 3/4 tsp Baking powder
  • 1 Food coloring, red
  • 3 cups Granulated sugar
  • 1/2 tsp Lemon extract
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 2 tsp Strawberry extract

• Dairy

  • 3 Sticks Butter
  • 1 package Cream cheese

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Description

Ingredients

• 3 Sticks of butter softened
• 3 Cups granulated sugar
• 1 package of Cream cheese, softened
• 6 eggs
• 2 Teaspoons Strawberry extract (Plus 1 Tsp. strawberry extract, used separately)
• ½ Teaspoon Lemon Extract
• 3 Cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ Teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ Teaspoon salt
• Red Food coloring (a few drops to make the batter light pink)
• ½ stick butter softened (beat until creamy)
• 4 oz. cream cheese softened (add to butter and beat until creamy)
• 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
• 1 Teaspoon Strawberry extract
• ¼ - ½ cup of milk
• Red food coloring ( a few drops)

Directions

• Heat oven to 325
• Using a large mixing bowl, cream the cream cheese, butter and sugar beating in a lot of air to make fluffy.
• Add the eggs one at a time into the creamed mixture.
• Add 2 Tsp. Strawberry Extract and ½ Tsp. Lemon extract.
• Slowly add the flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
• Remove 1 ½ cups of the batter, and in a smaller bowl add more red food coloring to make a darker color pink, and add 1 tsp. strawberry extract.
• Pour ½ of the light pink batter into a greased fluted pan.
• Pour the darker pink batter in the fluted pan.
• Pour the remaining light pink batter into the fluted pan and very lightly fold the colors together, once around the entire fluted pan.
• Bake at 325 for 75-85 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Cool completely before removing from pan.
• Mix butter and cream cheese mixture with powdered sugar slowly until blended, add a few drops of red food coloring. Add strawberry extract and ¼ cup of milk. As you mix, add milk to create a glaze consistency (like honey).
• Add the glaze to the Strawberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake once cooled.