Sour Cream Pound Cake
Sour Cream Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 cups white sugar
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 6 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon ground mace or 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup sour cream
- confectioners' sugar, or as needed
Instructions
- 1
Gather all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch fluted tube pan (such as Bundt or angel food cake pan).
- 2
Mix flour, salt, baking soda, and mace in a bowl; set aside.
- 3
Beat sugar and butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
- 4
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
- 5
Add flour mixture to wet ingredients alternately with sour cream, mixing until just incorporated.
- 6
Pour batter into the prepared pan; use the back of a spoon to smooth out the surface of the batter.
- 7
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 25 minutes. Run a thin knife or offset spatula around the edge of cake. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack and cool completely.
- 8
Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving.
Nutrition
Per serving (based on 14 servings)

