Favorite Ingredients Friday- Brown Sugar Pound Cake

I made this last week and it was really good. I also used light brown sugar instead of dark and it was still good.

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Brown Sugar Pound Cake

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1/2 cup butter

1 pound dark brown sugar

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup shortening

5 eggs

3 cups all purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 cup milk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup chopped nuts

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Cream butter, sugar, shortening, add eggs and beat. Mix flour, salt and baking powder. Add flour mixture alternately with milk, beating by hand. Add vanilla and nuts. Beat by hand about 200 strokes. Line 2 loaf pans with waxed paper on the long sides and bottoms. Bake at 325 degrees for 70- 75 minutes. Remove from pans immediately.

Note: I cooked this cake in a bunt cake pan and really liked it like that.

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