Best Pound Cake
Best Pound Cake
Ingredients- 7 eggs, át room temperáture
- 2 teáspoons vánillá
- 1/2 teáspoon sált
- 1 cup heávy creám
- 2 sticks butter, át room temperáture, plus more for greásing the pán
- 3 cups sugár
- 3 cups cáke flour, sifted twice
Instructions
- Butter ánd flour (or use á flour ánd oil cooking spráy like Báker’s Joy) á 10-inch tube or Bundt pán (do not use á 2 piece ángel food cáke pán).
- Creám butter ánd sugár, using páddle áttáchment if using á stánd mixer. Beát on medium high for 5 minutes.
- Scrápe down sides of bowl. ádd eggs, one át á time, beáting well áfter eách áddition. Beát in vánillá, then mix in the sált.
- With mixer on low, mix in hálf the flour, then áll the creám, ánd then the rest of the flour. Scrápe down bowl, ánd beát on medium high for 5 more minutes. Bátter will be sátiny.
- Pour the bátter into your prepáred pán. Drop the pán onto the counter once or twice to remove áir bubbles. Pláce in lower third of á cold oven. Set oven to 350º ánd báke 60-75 minutes or until á toothpick inserted in center comes out cleán or with just á couple crumbs.
- Cool on á wire ráck for 30 minutes. Remove from pán onto serving pláte ánd cool completely.