Karen's Sour Cream Pound Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 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)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350.
• 2 line the bottom of a 9 inch tube pan with paper, or grease really well!
• 3 cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• 4 add eggs, one at a time beating thoroughly after each egg.
• 5 sift dry ingredients together.
• 6 alternatly add the dry ingredients, and sour cream to the butter mixture blending really well.
• 7 add vanilla.
• 8 beat for about 5 minutes until smooth and silky looking.
• 9 pour into pan and bake 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• 10 i usually check at 1 hour 10 minutes.
• 11 your cake is done when a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• 12 let cake cool in pan for about 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool.
• 13 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.