Blue Ribbon Recipes

North Carolina State Fair - True Pound Cake Recipe - Blue Ribbon Winner 1993

INGREDIENTS

  • 3 cups sugar (sifted)

  • 3 sticks of butter

  • 8 eggs

  • 3 cups of flour (sifted twice)

DIRECTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour a loaf or bundt pan. Set aside.

  2. Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add flour 1/2 cup at a time. beat well after each addition.

  3. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

  4. Remove from oven and cool in pan slightly before inverting on plate to finish cooling.

YIELD: 12 to 16 servings

HINT:

NEVER substitute margarine (or “light” butter) for the butter in a pound cake. Do not test cake for doneness until it has been baking for at least one hour.

“Everybody was looking at me when I won, so I just said ‘You don’t know how long I’ve tried to get that blue ribbon!’”
— Blue Ribbon Winner, Linda Adams, Clayton NC

NC State Fair Blue Ribbon Coconut Cream Pie

Have you ever milked a cow? Seen a pie eating contest? Tried a Krispy Kreme Burger? There is SO much to experience at the North Carolina State Fair! I am blessed to be raised in North Carolina where some of the best home cooking in the country takes place! The state fair is where we get to not only appreciate some of these amazing cooks, but also have them share their recipes with us!

Ingredients

  • Unbaked 9 inch pie shell

  • 1/4 cup butter, softened to room temperature

  • 1 cup sugar

  • 1/3 cup buttermilk

  • 2 large eggs

  • 1/4 tsp salt

  • 1 tsp vanilla

  • 1/2 pkg (4 oz) shredded sweet coconut

Directions

  1. Put the oven rack in middle position. Preheat oven to 350

  2. Cream butter and sugar in the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Add buttermilk.

  3. Add eggs, one at a time. Add salt and vanilla. Fold in coconut. Pour filling into pie shell.

  4. Bake 40 minutes or until top is firm and crust is golden brown.

  5. Completely cool on rack.

  6. Refrigerate. Serves 8