Vanilla Buttermilk Pound Cake A Simple Old Fashioned Food

VANILLA BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE (A SIMPLE OLD FASHIONED RECIPE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°
• Blend butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at a time. Make sure each egg is folded in before you add the next.
• Add vanilla and beat until smooth.
• Sift flour, baking soda and salt together.
• Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.
• Pour into greased and floured tube or bundt pan. You can also use 2 loaf pans.
• Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
• Let cool 10-15 minutes.

VANILLA BUTTERMILK POUND CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Weigh or lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine flour and next 3 ingredients (through salt); stir with a whisk. Place sugar, butter, and vanilla in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour mixture and buttermilk to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Spoon batter into 2 (8" x 4") loaf pans coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350° for 50 - 60 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes on a wire rack. Remove from pans. Cool completely on a wire rack.

BLANK SLATE BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream sugar, shortening and eggs.
• Add flavoring.
• Combine dry ingredients.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk.
• Pour batter into greased and floured tube cake pan.
• Bake for 1 1/2 hours at 300°.
• Cool 10 minutes and turn out of pan.
• VARIATIONS: Add 1 cup of chocolate chips, melted, to batter for chocolate cake.
• Add grated orange or lemon peel for orange or lemon cake.

GRANDMA RUBY'S BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Sift flour, salt, and baking soda together into a bowl. Repeat sifting process 2 more times.
• Beat sugar and shortening together until smooth and creamy. Add flour mixture, buttermilk, eggs, lemon extract, vanilla extract, and butter extract; beat until batter is just combined. Pour batter into prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 75 minutes. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.