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I met with my uncle today to celebrate his birthday. I baked him his favorite cake and we enjoyed it with a steaming cup of Turkish coffee. His favorite treat and I like it too! This is a recipe that a wonderful woman that I worked with gave me. She gave me the recipe with a large slice of the cake that she made. It is just scrumptious. It is really halfway between a pound cake and a cheese cake.



CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE:

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
3 cups granulated sugar
6 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
zest of 1 lemon
juice of 1 lemon
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
Confectioner's sugar (optional)

Preheat oven to 325 Farenheit.
Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan or 12-cup bundt pan.
Beat butter and cream cheese together in mixing bowl until well blended. Add sugar to mixture and cream until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after eadh addition. Blend in vanilla, lemon zest and lemon juice. Sift flour and salt together; blend into creamed mixture.
Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted one inch from edge comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes; turn out onto wire rack and cool completely. Dust with confectioner's sugar, if desired.
Makes 12 to 15 servings.

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