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Quick Cream Cheese Pound Cake

May 30, 2018 by Judith Hannemann

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Quick and easy pound cake starts off with a convenient cake mix!

This quick and easy pound cake gets rave reviews but it’ll be your secret that it starts with a mix!

Delicious Cake The Easy Way

I was craving a cream cheese pound cake a while ago. However, I wasn’t craving making it from scratch as I was particularly lazy that day.

So having Google as my bestie when it comes to finding stuff I want, I searched and found this cake on Genius Kitchen. The recipe got rave reviews and I had all the ingredients so why not? I also wanted to use my NordicWare Heritage pan that I’d just rediscovered and dusted off. I’m at that stage now where I have things I’ve completely forgotten about and that cake pan was one of those things!

Quick and easy pound cake starts off with a convenient cake mix!

Minor Adjustments

The original recipe called for vanilla and almond extract. However, I thought the amount of almond extract was particularly low, given the size of the cake. So what I did since I’m a lover of almond and not so much a lover of vanilla was doubled the amount of the almond extract. I’ve done this in other recipes so I know omitting the vanilla won’t produce strange flavors.

Likewise if you are the opposite of me and prefer vanilla to almond, just omit the almond and double the vanilla. Same goes for any extract you like.

Quick and easy pound cake starts off with a convenient cake mix!

Simple Finishing Touch

You can serve this cake totally unadorned if you wish. It’s flavor really speaks for itself.

However, given that my very simple cake looked so elegant baked in that Heritage pan, I wanted to make it look special so I dusted it with some confectioner’s sugar. That was just the touch it needed!

It would also be nice with a simple and tart lemon glaze. If you choose to use the glaze, poking a few holes with a cake tester would let the flavor infuse.

The Recipe

 

Quick and easy pound cake starts off with a convenient cake mix!
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Quick Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This quick cream cheese pound cake gets rave reviews but it’ll be your secret that it starts with a boxed cake mix!
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time45 mins
Total Time55 mins
Course: desserts
Cuisine: American
Keyword: boxed cake mix, cream cheese, pound cake
Servings: 12 -16
Calories: 357kcal
Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

  • 1 box butter cake mix 2-layer size
  • 8 oz cream cheese at room temp
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 tsp almond extract

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 10-inch tube pan with non-stick or baking spray
  • Bring cream cheese to room temperature. (This will keep the batter from becoming lumpy.).
  • Place all ingredients in large mixing bowl.
  • Mix with electric mixer on low for one minute until all combined.
  • Mix at medium for two minutes.
  • Batter should look uniform and thick.
  • Bake at 350°F for about 45 minutes or until cake springs back when touched.

Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 357kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 75mg | Sodium: 396mg | Potassium: 67mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 28g | Vitamin A: 333IU | Calcium: 118mg | Iron: 1mg
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*Recipe adapted from Genius Kitchen
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Comments

  1. Beverly says

    May 31, 2018 at 11:52 am

    Sounds delicious!

  2. Betsyros says

    May 31, 2018 at 4:44 pm

    Would this work with 1/2 cup melted butter in place of the oil?

    • Judith Hanneman says

      May 31, 2018 at 11:18 pm

      I really don’t know. Butter, unlike oil, is not 100% fat so if the cake sets up, it will be a different texture–probably denser. You could try clarified butter–that would probably work because it’s pure fat then.

  3. Sean Mahan says

    June 1, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    Pound cakes are awesome, and this recipe just makes it look even better! Will sure make it over the weekend!

    • Judith Hanneman says

      June 1, 2018 at 10:01 pm

      Let me know how you liked it!

  4. Brenda says

    June 19, 2018 at 12:56 am

    This is the most delicious pound cake EVER I can’t believe this is ..box so MOIST I was going to use milk instead of water but decided to follow the recipe everyone that ate it raves about how good and moist it was I’m going to make this every week ..only thing I did was put a 1/4 teas. Of butter extract . Along with the almond.. thanks…

    • Judith Hanneman says

      June 19, 2018 at 1:21 am

      I am so glad you liked this!! It’s so easy too. I have an old-fashioned from-scratch one on the site from the early days. It was one of those kitchen disasters but it did taste good. This one is better though!

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