Yellow vanilla pound cake
Yellow vanilla pound cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 cup cold butter
- 1 2/3 cups granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 5 eggs
- 2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
- Using a bit of butter, coat only the bottom of a 9 inch tube pan.
- Dust with flour. Sides should remain ungreased so the cake will adhere to them better when rising.
- Put butter in a large mixing bowl and work it with a wooden spoon until it become shiny, about 5 minutes.
- Add sugar and salt. Continue to work sugar and butter together.
- When well mixed, stir in a circular motion until the mixture loses most of its gritty feeling. Adding eggs will dissolve the rest.
- Add eggs one at a time, stirring well after each addition.
- After third egg has been incorporated, add 2 tablespoons flour.
- Add the last 2 eggs and continue to stir, then add the rest of the flour in 4 parts, stirring well after each addition.
- Beat in vanilla extract and lemon juice.
- Spoon batter into prepared tube pan and smooth top.
- Bake for 40 minutes, then increase temperature to 325 degrees F.
- After 5 more minutes of baking, gently remove pan from oven, bend your ear to it and listen for bubbling or a slight sound.
- If you hear something, put it back in the oven to bake another 10 minutes, then remove again and listen.
- Let it bake another 5 minutes if necessary, until the cake is quiet.
- Or insert a skewer into cake. If it comes out clean, the cake is done.
- Remove cake from oven and run a knife around the sides of the pan.
- Turn out onto a wire rack, then turn cake face up.
- Cool, uncovered, for 15 minutes, then cover with a clean towel. Otherwise the cake will become dry and hard.
- When cool, store in a clean cake tin.
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