A Basic Pound Cake

A real basic pound cake - it's sturdy to make layer cakes from
1 lb softend butter
2 cups sugar
10 eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 tablespoon rum
4 cups cake flour

Cream the butter well and add the sugar gradually, cream the sugar and butter until it is light and fluffy. Add the eggs 2 at a time, beating after each one. Add the vanilla and the rum. Sift the flour twice and add it a little at a time to the batter, beating until the batter is smooth. Pour the mixture into 3 standard loaf pans or 4 9 in round cake pans that have been buttered and floured and lined with parchment. Bake in a preheated 300 degree oven for approx 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean.

A like to ice with a stable icing, coconut too -

A simple basic butter icing that will hold up even in the heat is 1 lb powdered sugar, sift it twice,  1 lb of butter, cream them together and add in 1 T vanilla and 1 T rum - thin it with approx 2 T coconut milk, you really want this to be a firm but spreadable icing - garnish with flaked coconut - if your using fresh flakes dust with powdered sugar and bake in a 400 degree oven for about 4 minutes...