Mimi's Pound Cake

Mimi’s Pound Cake

 

3 cups plain flour—not self-rising

2 sticks salted butter

3 cups sugar

1 cup heavy whipping cream

6 large eggs

2 tablespoons vanilla

 

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Generously grease and lightly flour a tube pan. Sift flour three times. Cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy.  Add eggs, one at a time.  Beat only until each disappears.  Blend in 1 cup flour followed by ½ cup whipping cream.  Repeat with 1 cup flour and ½ cup whipping cream.  Add remaining flour.  Fold in vanilla.  Add batter to pan, level it and drop it flat on the counter to knock out the air bubbles.  Place in center of the oven and bake for an hour and fifteen minutes, or until it’s browned on top and begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.  Remove from oven. Wait ten minutes and invert on a cake plate.  Do not cover until cool to touch.