Vanilla-nutmeg pound cake

12 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 cups Cake flour
2 teaspoons Baking soda
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Ground nutmeg
1 cup Unsalted butter; softened
2 cups Granulated sugar
2 Eggs
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
2 cups Buttermilk or sour cream
Confectioner's sugar; for dusting

Directions

Recipe by: the California Culinary Academy Preparation Time: 0:45 1.

Butter and flour a 12-cup tube pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Sift flour, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg together.

2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg is added. Stir in vanilla.

3. Stir half of the sifted flour mixture into the butter-sugar mixture. Add 1 cup of the buttermilk. Add the other half of the flour mixture, then the remaining buttermilk.

4. Pour batter into prepared tube pan and bake until a wooden skewer inserted 2 inches from edge comes out clean (about 1 hour and 5 minutes). Cool cake in pan 10 to 15 minutes; invert onto a cooling rack, remove pan, and cool completely before serving. Transfer to a serving plate. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

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