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Apple Cider Pound Cake

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Recipe Introduction

This is a very unusual type of cake but it is so great looking and so great tasting. You just got to try this when you have a bounty of apples on hand. Warning, this cake is addictive.

List of Ingredients

1 cup real butter softened
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
6 medium eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 teaspoons apple pie spice
1 cup apple cider
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cream butter and shortening; gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. combine next 4 ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with apple cider, beginning and ending with dry ingredients, stir in vanilla. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan. Bake at 325 for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until the cake tests done. cool in pan 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan and cool completely on a rack.


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