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Old-fashioned Sour Cream Pound Cake

Name: Old-fashioned Sour Cream Pound Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 3 cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 6 eggs, separated; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice; 1 cup sour cream; 3 cups all-purpose flour, sift before measuring; 1/4 teaspoon baking soda; 1/4 teaspoon salt

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Some things you just can not improve on. The recipe for this Old-fashioned Sour Cream Pound Cake is one of those things.

Old-fashioned Sour Cream Pound Cake

Yield: About 12 servings

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Some things you just can not improve on. The recipe for this Old-fashioned Sour Cream Pound Cake is one of those things.

Ingredients

3 cups sugar
1 cup butter
6 eggs, separated
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 cup sour cream
3 cups all-purpose flour, sift before measuring
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Cream together sugar and butter, add the egg yolks one at time; beat well after each addition. Blend in vanilla, lemon juice and sour cream.
Into a separate bowl, sift sifted flour, salt, and soda. Add sifted dry ingredients to batter; beat well. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
Fold egg whites into the cake batter. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake at 300° for about 1-1/2 hours or until cake tests done.

Nutrition Information

Yield 12 Serving Size 1 piece
Amount Per Serving Calories 519Total Fat 22gSaturated Fat 12gTrans Fat 1gUnsaturated Fat 7gCholesterol 145mgSodium 235mgCarbohydrates 75gFiber 1gSugar 51gProtein 7g

Nutrition data was provided and calculated by Nutritionix, and should only be used as a general guideline. This information is provided as a courtesy and there is no guarantee that the information will be completely accurate.

Recipe adapted from: TwirlandTaste.com