Sour Cream Pound Cake. Because I'm our town's postmaster, I can bake only in my spare time. When I do, I especially like this sour cream cake recipe. This one tastes great as is, or tucked under ice cream and chocolate syrup like a hot fudge sundae!
Pour the mixture into a greased and floured loaf pan. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together. Add the sour cream and mix until incorporated. You can cook Sour Cream Pound Cake using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sour Cream Pound Cake
- It’s 1 cup of butter (room temperature).
- It’s 2 3/4 cup of sugar.
- You need 3 cup of cake flour, (plain all-purpose works fine) measure after sifted.
- It’s 2 tsp of vanilla.
- You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 6 of eggs, separated.
- It’s 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
- You need 8 oz of sour cream (1/2 pint).
Sift the baking soda and flour together. This sour cream pound cake is one of the best holiday cakes you'll ever taste! This pound cake is velvety, buttery, rich and perfectly creamy filled with the moistness and flavor of sour cream. This generational recipe will become a true classic in your family for years to come.
Sour Cream Pound Cake instructions
- Preheat oven to 300°F.
- Grease and flour a tube pan.
- Cream butter until light and fluffy.
- Add sugar gradually and continue to cream until light and fluffy.
- Add vanilla and salt.
- Blend in egg yolks 1 at a time blending well after each addition.
- Add soda to sour cream and stir.
- Add flour and sour cream alternately, beginning and ending with flour.
- Fold in beaten egg whites.
- Pour into greased and floured tube pan.
- Bake at 300°F for 1 1/2 hours.
This classic pound cake from Southern Living is particularly rich, tender, and perfect because of the addition of sour cream. Add to butter mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat batter at low speed just until blended after each addition. This moist sour cream pound cake is very easy to put together. If you have a stand mixer, it's even easier.
