Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups (4 sticks) unsalted butter
  
• 2 cups sugar
  
• 8 large eggs
  
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
  
• 4 cups sifted cake flour
  
• ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
  
• ½ teaspoon salt
  

Directions

1. Have all ingredients at room temperature and preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease two 9 x 5 inch loaf pans or one 10-inch tube pan.
   
2. Beat the butter at medium high speed for 1 minute. Gradually add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
   
3. Beat each egg in one at a time, beating for 1 minute after each new addition.
   
4. Add the vanilla and beat one minute.
   
5. Slowly add the flour and beat on low speed until well blended.
   
6. Increase the speed to medium high and beat in cream of tartar and salt.
   
7. Pour the batter into the pans and bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean. If using a tube pan, the cake will need to bake an additional 15 minutes.
   
8. Cool the small loaves ten minutes and the tube pan 15 minutes before removing to a rack to cool. Turn small loaves right side up to cool and allow the tube pan to cool upside down. Yields two 9 x 5 loaves or one 10-inch tube.
   

 

Recipe adapted from Joy of Cooking

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