Southern Pound Cake
Ingredients:
For the cake:
3 cups all-purpose flour (for best results, use White Lily)
2 cups sugar (for best results, use Dixie Crystal)
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs
For the butter sauce:
3/4 cup sugar
1/3 cup butter or margarine
3 TBSP water
2 tsp vanilla extract
Powdered sugar
Instructions:
Heat oven to 325 degrees. Generously grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan. Beat sugar, butter and eggs. Add remaining cake ingredients and beat 3 minutes on medium speed. Pour into prepared cake pan. Bake 55-70 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. DO NOT remove cake from pan.
In a small saucepan, combine all sauce ingredients. Cook over low heat until butter melts, stirring occasionally. Do not boil. Using long-tined fork, pierce hot cake in pan 10-15 times. Slowly pour sauce over cake. Remove cake immediately from pan AFTER sauce has been absorbed. Cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
