Gram's Watermelon Pound Cake
A community recipe for Gram's Watermelon Pound Cake from Now We're Cooking.
Ingredients
- 6 egg whites
- 3 sticks butter
- 3 cups sugar
- 6 egg yolks
- 4 1/2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 3 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. almond extract
- 3/4 cup raisins
- red and green food coloring
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven at 325F.
- 2
Whip egg whites
- 3
Cream butter, sugar and egg yolks together
- 4
Sift flour, salt and baking powder together. Fold into creamed mixture, alternating with the milk
- 5
Add vanilla and almond extracts. Fold in egg whites
- 6
Separate 1/3 of dough and add green food coloring. Add red food coloring and raisins to remaining dough
- 7
Grease and flour a large round tube pan, then insert vertically a waxed paper circle 'fence' 2 inches from the edge of the pan
- 8
Pour green dough OUTSIDE fence and raisin/red dough INSIDE fence
- 9
Remove 'fence' and place pan into oven on middle rack
- 10
Bake for 1 1/2 to 2 hours
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