English Pound Cake

This English pound cake recipe is made with sour cream, sugar, and butter, yielding a dense cake with three extracts — vanilla, orange, and almond.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 1 hr 10 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins
• Calories: 521 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup sour cream
• 3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
• 3 cups white sugar
• 1 cup butter, room temperature
• 6 eggs, room temperature
• 0.25 teaspoon salt
• 0.5 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 0.25 teaspoon baking soda
• 0.25 teaspoon almond extract
• 0.25 teaspoon orange extract

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.

Step 2

Sift flour, baking soda and salt together into a bowl; set aside.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool cake on a wire rack before removing from pan to cool completely.

Step 4

Beat sugar and butter together in a large bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy; it should be noticeably lighter in color. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in extracts; blend in flour mixture, alternating with sour cream, until fully incorporated. Pour batter into the prepared pan.