Ingredients
- 3 cups sugar
- 1⁄2 lb butter, softened
- 7 eggs, room temperature
- 3 cups cake flour, sifted twice
- 1 cup whipping cream (heavy cream)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
1 _ Butter and flour a 10 inch tube or bundt pan.2 _ Thoroughly cream together sugar and butter.
3 _ Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
4 _ Mix in half the flour, then the whipping cream, then the other half of the flour.
5 _ Add Vanilla.
6 _ Pour into prepared pan.
7 _ Set in COLD oven and turn heat to 350ºF.
8 _ Bake 1 hour to 70 minutes, until a sharp knife inserted in cake turns out clean.
9 _ Cool in pan 5 minutes.
10 _ Remove from pan and cool thoroughly.
11 _ Wrapped well, this cake will keep for several days.
Note: while the original recipe did not suggest this, when I'm in the mood for something different I will add a teaspoon or two of orange or lemon extract for a lemon or orange pound cake.
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