Karen's Sour Cream Pound Cake

By cnash

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)

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from food.com

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.