An Unusual Pound Cake

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An Unusual Pound Cake

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Course after church coffee hour, Dessert

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup butter (soft) Or ½ cup soft butter and ½ cup heavy cream
• 2¾ cups sugar
• 6 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour sifted 2-3 times
• ½ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• 1 cup sour cream
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ½ tsp almond extract

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350°
• Cream butter until light.
• Gradually add sugar and beat (use a low mixture speed) until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs (one at a time) and beat well after each addition.
• Sift flour, salt, and baking soda together.
• Add the sifted dry ingredients alternately with the sour cream, beginning with the flour mixture.
• Add the flavoring and stir lightly.
• Do not overbeat.
• Pour into an ungreased 9" tube pan and bake for 1 hour 20 minutes or until a straw inserted in the center comes out dry and not sticky.
• Cool on wire cake rack.

Keyword cake, pound cake