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Grandma Bessies cake
Grandma Bessie's Pound Cake

Servings: 12 to 16?

Servings: 12-16?
Ingredients
  • 6 eggs-room temperature
  • 2 sticks butter-room temperature
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 oz sour cream
  • 3 c flour
  • ¼ tsp baking soda
  • ¼ tsp salt (optional-Shameka's addition)
  • 1 tbs almond extract
  • ½ to 1 tbs lemon extract (Gma used 1)
  • ½ tbs vanilla extract (our addition)
  • Baker's Joy
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  • Make Your favorite glaze
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  • subheading: Here is mine's:
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
  • splash of vanilla
  • 1 tbsp lemon zest (optional if you want it extra extra lemony)
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  • If you double glaze dont double the zest. It makes it too lemony.
Steps
  1. 1) Bring butter and eggs to room temperature.
  2. 2) Sift together flour, baking soda and salt.
  3. 3) Cream butter and sugar.
  4. 4) While mixer is still running. Slowly add eggs 1 at a time. MIx well between eggs.
  5. 5) Add sour cream. Mix well.
  6. 6) Add flour mixture slowly. Alternating between adding flour and mixing.
  7. 7) Add extracts. Mix.
  8. 8) Spray bundt pan with Baker's Joy and bake in preheated oven at 325 for 1 hr to 1 hr 20 min. Grandma said to turn it brown. Bake until the ancestor's say it is done. She didn't tell me exactly but I do the toothpick test and keep it pushing. Let cake cool for 10 to 15 min and then invert onto wire racks and cool.
  9. 9) She just said to make a glaze so I make my favorite one. But any glaze will do. MIx all the glaze ingredients and drizzle them onto a cooled cake. We prefer a lot of glaze.
Notes
  • Grandma Bessie said that you can add up 7 different extracts to this cake. There is a cake that has all of the extracts added to it and she says that it tastes pretty good. Don't assume this cake is done. Your oven may require longer or shorter and that is ok. Never fail to search google for tips. Grandma told me this recipe and I wrote down everything that she said.
 

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