Basic Old Fashioned Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 5 eggs room temperature
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 cups cake flour or 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
Instructions
- Heat oven to 325F. Lightly grease a 9x5x3 bread pan. Beat butter in a bowl until smooth, about 30 seconds. With mixer on low speed, gradually add sugar. Increase speed to high and beat until light and fluffy.
- With mixer still on high, add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla and salt and beat until very pale in color and increased in volume.
- With a rubber spatula, mix in flour, about a third of a cup at a time, until smooth. Scrape batter into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a pick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Cool cake in pan for 15 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.
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