Gluten Free & Dairy Free Pound Cake

I hope you had a wonderful, stress-free (as stress-free as it can be) Hanukah, Christmas and New Years! I'm sorry I've been so MIA over the holidays, but I'm back after some wonderful time with family and friends (Scroll down to see photos of some of my vintage Christmas decorations). 

I want to share a gluten free and dairy free pound cake recipe that was a huge Christmas hit! 

I snagged this yummy recipe from my cousins Matt and Catherine (thank you both!). Everyone went wild over it - even the gluten eaters! They kept saying how this gluten free and dairy free pound cake tasted like the real deal. In other words, you've got to try it! It's my new favorite dessert, and it's a versatile one. Can't you see it topped with raspberries for a vintage Valentine's Day party or decorated with flower petals and colored candy eggs for Easter? The possibilities go on, and please read on for the tasty how-to. I hope you like! xx

All that you need to create! 

Ingredients:

3 cups of flour mix from "Cooking for Isaiah" by Silvana Nardone (included here)

3 cups of sugar

5 eggs

2 sticks of butter flavored Crisco (the butter flavor is derived from plants and it is completely dairy-free)

1 cup of almond milk

1 tsp. pure lemon flavoring

1 tsp. pure vanilla flavoring

Directions:

1. Start in a COLD oven.

2. Cream the Crisco and sugar in a mixing bowl.

3. Add the eggs one at a time and beat for 2 minutes at high speed.

4. Reduce beating speed and slowly add in the flour mix.

5. Then add in the almond milk along with the flavorings and beat well.

6. Pour the newly mixed dough into a large round, tube pan that has been greased and floured (If you don't have a round, tube pan, then use 2 loaf pans).

7. Place it in the oven.

8. Turn oven on at 300º F for 1 hr and 50 minutes (The original recipe read 1 hr and 45 minutes, but mine needed more time so be sure to stick your cake to make sure it's done!).

The cake you crave!

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