Best Southern Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipes

SOUTHERN SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Generously grease and flour a 10-inch bundt or tube pan.
• Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl at medium speed. Blend until mixture is light and fluffy and sugar is no longer granulated. (About ten minutes).
• Add vanilla & almond extracts, scraping sides of bowl so it is thoroughly incorporated.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg is added.
• Add sour cream all at once and blend thoroughly.
• Sift flour, baking soda and salt into small bowl (A wire whisk works perfectly to sift/mix dry ingredients). Slowly add flour mixture and continue beating until mixture is smooth and well blended. (Add by approximately three parts-roughly 1-cup additions).
• Pour batter into the well-greased and floured bundt or tube pan.
• Bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes and then invert pan onto wire rack and cool completely.

SOUTHERN PECAN SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt or tube pan. Sprinkle pecans on bottom of pan; set aside. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda into a medium bowl; set aside. In a large bowl, cream butter and white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Add flour mixture alternately with sour cream. Pour batter over pecans in prepared pan.
• 2. Bake in the preheated oven for 75 to 90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 20 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. To prepare the glaze: In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, orange juice and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Drizzle over cake while still warm.