PAULA DEAN CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE RECIPES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a mixing bowl cream sugar and butter, beat until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs on at a time.
• Mix cocoa and food coloring together in a small bowl; add to mixture and mix well.
• Sift together cake flour and salt.
• Add flour to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour.
• Blend in vanilla.
• In a small bowl combine baking soda and vineager. Add to mixture.
• Pour batter into 2 9inch or 3 8 inch cake pans.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until done.
• Cool completely before frosting.
• For Icing:.
• Blend cream cheese and butter together in a mixing bowl.
• Add marshmallow creme and sugar; blend well.
• Fold in coconut and nuts if desired (or what I always do is press them into just the sides of the cake after I get the icing on it; very pretty this way!).
• Spread between layers and on top and sides of cooled cake.

Steps:

• First, set your oven to a temperature of 350 F.
• Apply some cooking spray to a 10-inch tube pan.
• Take a bowl and add some flour, baking soda, and salt in it and mix it well. 
• In another bowl, add some butter until it turns fluffy and light in texture.
• Add granulated sugar and lemon extract into this mixture and whisk it properly.
• Now, add some eggs, one at a time and beat them well. Also, add lemon rind and some lemon juice and whisk it properly.
• Now, add this sugar mixture into the flour and add some sour cream as well. Keep beating this mixture at a relatively low speed until the mixture is done completely.
• Add this batter into the cake pans and bake it for around 1 hour and 10 minutes.
• Keep a check on the oven and if needed, insert a wooden pick at the center of the cake and wit until it pops out.
• After the cake is ready, let it cool on the cooling rack. And meanwhile, mix some lemon juice with powdered sugar and drizzle it over the top of the cake.