Real Fruit Strawberry Buttermilk Pound Cake

Real Fruit Strawberry Pound Cake has a nice strawberry flavor within the cake itself. It’s not a plain cake with strawberry chunks. It’s wonderful!

Just like a traditional pound cake, my Real Fruit Strawberry Pound Cake is dense and luscious with a small crumb. As well, the outside has that wonderful crunchy crust that you just want to keep eating and eating.

However, while being like a traditional pound cake in those regards, this cake stands out because of the wonderful, fresh strawberry flavor. It has the perfect taste and texture.

Ingredients

• 1 pint strawberries
• 1 cup solid vegetable shortening
• 3 cups granulated sugar
• 5 large eggs at room temperature
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk at room temperature
• 3 cups all-purpose flour sifted (do not use self-rising flour)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon strawberry extract
• 4 - 5 drops red food coloring *if desired

Instructions
For the strawberries

1. Wash the strawberries, remove stems, and puree in a food processor.
2. In a saucepan on low heat, reduce strawberry puree until thick.  You will have about 1/2 cup. 
3. Cool strawberry puree.

For the cake

1. Prepare a 10-inch tube pan with solid vegetable shortening and either flour or sugar. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. Cream shortening until fluffy.
3. Add sugar to shortening and mix until fluffy, about 5 minutes.
4. For full instructions : www.callmepmc.com

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