Nanny Craddock’s Cinnamon Pound Cake
Today is a very exciting day for the Myers fam – my sister in law, Caitlin, is getting married! In honor of this occasion I am posting a very special recipe from her husband-to-be’s family: Nanny Craddock’s cinnamon pound cake. Y’all, not only is this pound cake is out of this world good, it is also SUPER easy. I did go a little rogue and add a fun little layer of cream cheese frosting with each cinnamon layer, but feel free to omit if you want the OG recipe.
Nanny Craddock’s Cinnamon Pound Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 box Duncan Hines yellow cake mix
- 8 oz sour cream
- 1 pkg lemon instant pudding
- ½ cup canola oil
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ⅓ cup milk
Cinnamon Swirl
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 3 tsp cinnamon
Cream Cheese Filling
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 egg white
- 2 tbsp sugar
- ¼ tsp vanilla extract
- ⅛ tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Mix all cake ingredients together, set aside
- In separate small bowl, mix together cinnamon swirl brown sugar and cinnamon then set aside
- In medium sized bowl, beat together cream cheese filling ingredients and then set aside
- Spray a large loaf pan with nonstick spray then pour ⅓ of the batter into the pan
- Add half of the cream cheese mixture and then sprinkle ⅓ of the brown sugar mixture on top of the cream cheese
- Add half of the remaining cake batter over the cinnamon mixture then top with remaining cream cheese and half of the brown sugar mixture
- Add the final layer of the cake batter – loaf pan should be 3/4 of the way full otherwise the cake will spill out
- Take a knife and swirl around lightly in batter to help spread cream cheese
- Sprinkle top of loaf with remaining cinnamon sugar mixture and then bake for 1 hour
