Pullman Pound Cake

So Nana Anna bought a huge box of peaches at the farmers' market to make a pie and we had to figure out what to do with all the rest of the peaches...I came across a peach pound cake recipe...and man was it good and I am not big on fruit desserts. I decided that the pound cake was good enough to stand on its own with maybe some flavored icing on top (lemon, orange, almond, etc).....This cake is so good...the peaches mixed in the cake were good too (See Picture)....So feel free to make it plain with some icing or mix in just about any fruit....serve with whip cream or pudding cream or dip in melted chocolate. You know me I love chocolate...

10 inch Tube Pan

1 C Butter, room temp/softened

2 C Sugar + extra for pan coating

4 Eggs

1 t Vanilla Extract

3 C Flour

1 t Baking Powder

1/2 t Salt

Optional: 2 C Fresh Fruit, Chopped (Peaches, Blueberries, Apples, etc)

Optional: Icing Recipe or Glaze Recipe (Flavored with Lemon, Almond or Vanilla)

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 10 inch tube pan and coat with white sugar. In a large bowl or mixer cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in eggs 1 at a time beating well after each one. Then stir in vanilla. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt in separate bowl and then gradually stir into creamed butter mixture. Spread evenly into pan. Bake 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick come out clean. Allow cake to cool in the pan for 10 min before inverting it onto a wire cooling rack. Cool completely.

***If adding Fresh Fruit****
Follow same directions except, reserve 1/4 cup of the flour for coating fresh fruit, coat fruit and then fold into batter, pour into pan and bake.

Top with your favorite icing, glaze, powder sugar, fresh fruit, pudding, whip cream...you name it anything is possible!!