Best Pound Cake Ever
Cuisine: American
Author: Cookie Madness
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 60 mins
Total time: 1 hour 10 mins
Best Pound Cake Ever (aka Mary Jo Bowen’s Pound Cake)
Ingredients
  • 8 oz (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cool room temp (European Style preferred)
  • 3 cups (600g) superfine sugar, divided use
  • 6 large eggs, separated, cool room temp
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon pure almond extract
  • 1 cup (8 1/2 oz) sour cream, cool room temp
  • 3 cups (330g) cake flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Butter and flour a 12 cup tube pan.
  2. Sift together dry ingredients; Set aside.
  3. in the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter and 2 1/2 cups (500g) of sugar until light and creamy. For best results, beat for a long time -- about 8 minutes, adding the sugar gradually. Beat in egg yolks one at a time.
  4. Beat in extracts.
  5. Remove bowl from stand and sift in the flour mixture 1/2 cup at a time, alternating with the sour cream. Stir or fold with a heavy duty scraper to mix.
  6. In a clean metal bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in the remaining 1/2 cup (100g) of sugar until shiny, soft, billowy peaks. Do not overbeat. Fold into batter.
  7. Bake for 50-75 minutes, until cake tests done.
Recipe by Cookie Madness at http://www.cookiemadness.net/2008/07/best-pound-cake-ever/