50+ Friends Club Cookbook -- Cakes and Frostings -- Southern Pound Cake
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Southern Pound Cake
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Recommendation: serve your pound cake plain or, strawberries, peaches, or nearly any fruit of
your choice, and top it off with whipped creme. You can also slice your pound cake into three
layers and add fruit preserves like strawberry or apricot between the layers to serve like a
torte.
| 1 | lb | Butter, at room temperature |
| 1 | lb | Powdered Sugar (Confectioner's Sugar) |
| 1/2 | tsp. | Salt |
| 3 | cups | Cake Flour, sifted 3 times and re-measured |
| 6 | large | Eggs, at room temperature |
| 1 1/2 | tsp. | Vanilla Extract |
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar together.
Add the salt, flour, eggs, and vanilla. Make sure the cake batter is blended together until fluffy.
Pour in a well-oiled and floured tube pan or a non-stick tube pan.
Bake in a pre-heated 325-F degree oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a tooth pick that is inserted in the
center of the cake comes out clean.
Remove from the oven and let cool in pan for about 10 minutes.
Remove from pan and place on a rack to finish cooling.
Makes 1 Cake