Karen'S Sour Cream Pound Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened
2 2/3 cups sugar
6 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour, SIFTED
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
confectioners sugar glaze (optional)
red and gree maraschino cherry (optional)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350.
Line the bottom of a 9 inch tube pan with paper, or grease really well!
Cream the butter and Sugar until light and fluffy.
Add Eggs, one at a time beating thoroughly after each egg.
Sift dry ingredients together.
Alternatly add the dry ingredients, and sour cream to the butter mixture blending really well.
Add vanilla.
Beat for about 5 minutes until smooth and silky looking.
Pour into pan and bake 1 hour and 20 minutes.
I usually check at 1 hour 10 minutes.
Your cake is done when a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Let cake cool in pan for about 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool.
You make make a glaze of Confectioners sugar or decorate with red and green cherries. The green ones for leaves the red ones as flowers.