Five Flavor Cake

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Five Flavor Cake

This easy pound cake recipe is said to be one of the best and most flavorful pound cakes you'll ever make. Five Flavor Cake includes coconut, rum, butter, lemon and vanilla flavors, which all come together to create one delicious tasting pound cake. Cake recipes from scratch are always the best, and this old-fashioned dessert is a tried and tested family favorite. You can even play around with the flavors if you don't have one on hand.

Cooking Time1 hr 30 min

Cooking MethodOven

Ingredients

  • 1 cup margarine
  • 1/2 cup shortening
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 5 eggs, well beaten
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 teaspoon coconut flavor
  • 1 teaspoon rum flavor
  • 1 teaspoon butter flavor
  • 1 teaspoon lemon flavor
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
     
  2. Cream butter, shortening, and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, which have been beaten. Combine flour and baking powder and add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Stir in flavorings.
     
  3. Spoon mixture into prepared 10-inch tube or bundt pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours or until it tests done. Add glaze if desired. Cool in pan about 10 minutes before turning out.
     
  4. To make the optional Six Flavor Glaze: Combine 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water, and 1 teaspoon each of butter, vanilla, coconut, rum, lemon and almond flavors in heavy saucepan. Bring to boil, stir until sugar is dissolved. Pour on one half of the glaze while cake is in bundt/tube pan, and the other half when removed.

 

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