Super Pound Cake

Name: Super Pound Cake
Ingredients: 3 sticks butter or margarine, room temperature; 3 c. sugar; 5 large eggs; 3 c. flour; 1 tsp. vanilla extract; 1/2 tsp. lemon extract (or 1 tsp. grated lemon peel); 1/2 tsp. almond extract; 7/8 c. ginger ale or similar soda

8 ingredients

8 steps

Ingredients

3 sticks butter or margarine, room temperature
3 c. sugar
5 large eggs
3 c. flour
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. lemon extract (or 1 tsp. grated lemon peel)
1/2 tsp. almond extract
7/8 c. ginger ale or similar soda

Directions

1

Cream butter until light.
2

Cream in sugar and beat until fluffy.
3

Beat in eggs one at a time.
4

Beat in 1 cup flour, then add extracts and ginger ale alternately until all used.
5

Beat until smooth.
6

Pour into two greased and floured loaf pans (9 x 5-inch) or one 10-inch tube pan.
7

Bake in preheated 275° oven for about one hour and 45 minutes. (Baking time will be longer for the 10-inch pan.) Test for doneness with a toothpick.
8

Let cool in pan.