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Ingredients
- Caramel Pound Cake - Adapted From My Mother's Southern Entertaining by James Villas with Martha Pearl Villas
- For the Cake:
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, softened
- 6 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- For the Frosting:
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
- 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup milk (plus more if needed to thin frosting)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups powdered sugar
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