Strawberry Cream Cheese Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 3 Sticks of butter softened
• 3 Cups granulated sugar
• 1 package of Cream cheese, softened
• 6 eggs
• 2 Teaspoons Strawberry extract (Plus 1 Tsp. strawberry extract, used separately)
• ½ Teaspoon Lemon Extract
• 3 Cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ Teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ Teaspoon salt
• Red Food coloring (a few drops to make the batter light pink)

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 325
2. Using a large mixing bowl, cream the cream cheese, butter and sugar beating in a lot of air to make fluffy.
3. Add the eggs one at a time into the creamed mixture.
4. Add 2 Tsp. Strawberry Extract and ½ Tsp. Lemon extract.
5. Slowly add the flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
6. Remove 1 ½ cups of the batter, and in a smaller bowl add more red food coloring to make a darker color pink, and add 1 tsp. strawberry extract.
7. Pour ½ of the light pink batter into a greased fluted pan.
8. Pour the darker pink batter in the fluted pan.
9. Pour the remaining light pink batter into the fluted pan and very lightly fold the colors together, once around the entire fluted pan.
10. Bake at 325 for 75-85 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
11. Cool completely before removing from pan.

Recipes by www.adayinmotherhood.com