Sour Cream Pound Cake

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 80 min
Servings: 14
Yield: 14 servings

Description

This sour cream pound cake is flavored with vanilla and always turns out moist and delicious. It's easy to make with pantry ingredients for an old-fashioned favorite!

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3 cups white sugar
2 cups unsalted butter, softened
6 large eggs, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch ground mace
1 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar, or as needed

Directions

1 Gather all ingredients. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch fluted tube pan (such as Bundt or angel food cake pan).
2 Mix flour, salt, baking soda, and mace in a bowl; set aside.
3 Beat sugar and butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
4 Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
5 Add flour mixture to wet ingredients alternately with sour cream, mixing until just incorporated.
6 Pour batter into the prepared pan; use the back of a spoon to smooth out the surface of the batter.
7 Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 25 minutes. Run a thin knife or offset spatula around the edge of cake. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack and cool completely.
8 Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving.