Brown Sugar Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 c. butter, softened
1 (16 oz.) box light brown sugar
1/2 c. granulated sugar
5 eggs, separated
3 c. sifted cake flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 c. milk, at room temperature
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt
1 c. chopped nuts (optional)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325\u00b0.
Cream butter and sugars.
Add egg yolks one at a time.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt together and add alternately with milk.
Beat 2 minutes.
Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry.
Fold whites into cake mixture with vanilla and nuts.
Pour into greased and floured 10 cup tube pan and bake 1 1/2 hours or until cake pulls away from edges of pan and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
Cool 25 minutes in pan, then turn out onto rack.