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Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 2/3 cups sugar
- 6 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, SIFTED
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- confectioners sugar glaze (optional)
- red and gree maraschino cherry (optional)
Preparation
Step 1
Directions
Preheat oven to 350.
Line the bottom of a 9 inch tube pan with paper, or grease really well!
Cream the butter and Sugar until light and fluffy.
Add Eggs, one at a time beating thoroughly after each egg.
Sift dry ingredients together.
Alternatly add the dry ingredients, and sour cream to the butter mixture blending really well.
Add vanilla.
Beat for about 5 minutes until smooth and silky looking.
Pour into pan and bake 1 hour and 20 minutes.
I usually check at 1 hour 10 minutes.
Your cake is done when a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Let cake cool in pan for about 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool.
You make make a glaze of Confectioners sugar or decorate with red and green cherries. The green ones for leaves the red ones as flowers.