Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Sour Cream Pound Cake

2-3/4 cups sugar
1 cup butter
6 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon soda
3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
1/2 teaspoon orange extract

Cream together sugar and butter til fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each. Sift together dry ingredients; add alternately with sour cream, ending with sour cream. Add extracts, beat well.
Pour into 10" greased and floured tube pan, smooth the top.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan.

Optional:
Top while worm with confectioners sugar
or serve with mashed strawberries and cream
or serve with mandarin oranges and cream

Recipe from Nancy Hughes
A favorite cake recipe to make any time.
Bake in well greased bundt pan.
Marbelize - mix a few spoons of cocoa into a cup of so of batter. Mix will and swirl lightly through the batter in the pan.