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BEST SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

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Best Southern Pound Cake

 


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INGREDIENTS

  • Cooking Time: 120
  • Servings: 12
  • 1 cup butter, no substitutes
  • 3 cups granulated sugar
  • 3 cups sifted cake flour
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1 (8-ounce) carton sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla
  • ¼ cup frozen orange juice concentrate
  • ½ cup water

DIRECTIONS

Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer, about 3 minutes or until creamy.


Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed 5 to 7 minutes.


This should be a light lemon yellow mixture.


Sift together flour and soda.


Add to the butter mixture 1/3 at a time.


This batter will be very thick.


Separate eggs. Add egg yolks, one at a time, to the batter.


Add sour cream and vanilla also to the batter.


Beat the egg whites until stiff. Fold into the batter.


Spoon into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan or a 12-cup bundt pan.


Bake at 300 degrees for 2 hours or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.


While cake is baking; Combine water and frozen orange juice concentrate in a small bowl. Stir until combined and concentrate is melted.


Remove cake from oven and cool in a pan on a wire rack for 10-15 minutes.


Slowly drizzle the orange juice mixture over the still warm cake.


Let rest for 5 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.


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