Easy Pound Cake Ingredients
- 1 15 oz box yellow cake mix
- 4 large eggs
- 1 c. sour cream
- ⅓ c. vegetable oil
- 1 3.4 oz instant vanilla pudding mix
Additional Items:
- Frosting ingredients according to your favorite recipe
- Decorations as desired
- Wilton lamb cake pan (or other - size will vary amount of batter used)
- Nonstick spray, vegetable shortening, flour for pan prep
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Spray both sides of lamb cake mold. Generously grease both sides with shortening, sift flour over molds. Set aside on baking sheet.
- Combine cake mix, vanilla pudding mix, sour cream, vegetable oil and eggs in large bowl. Use hand mixer on low speed until combined. Beat on medium speed for 3-4 minutes until thick.
- Pour batter in bottom mold (face side without vent hole) until just under edge.
- Place back/vented part of mold on top of filled half, nestling halves together all the way around.
- Tie string around neck of mold.
- Bake 55 minutes. Insert toothpick into vent hole to ensure doneness.
- Cool cake in mold 5 minutes. Remove top mold, cool 10-15 minutes.
- Remove cake from mold by flipping it over onto baking sheet, rest on back of lamb. Cool completely.
- Trim any rough bits, even out bottom of cake, and stand it up.
- Frost and decorate as desired.