Saturday, 15 November 2014

Sour Cream Pound Cake

Ingredients

3 cups sugar $
3/4 cup butter, softened $
1 1/3 cups egg substitute $
1 1/2 cups low-fat sour cream $
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1/4 teaspoon salt $
2 teaspoons vanilla extract $
Cooking spray $
Fresh blackberries (optional) 
Mint sprigs (optional)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 325°.
Place sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended (about 5 minutes). Gradually add egg substitute, beating well.
Combine sour cream and baking soda. Stir well, and set aside. Lightly spoon cake flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine flour and salt. Add flour mixture and sour cream mixture alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in vanilla.
Pour batter into a 10-inch tube pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes on wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack. Garnish with blackberries and mint, if desired.
Note: Eight egg whites can be used in place of egg substitute. Add one at a time to sugar mixture.
VARIATIONS
Lemon: Add 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind.
Coconut: Decrease vanilla to 1 teaspoon; add 1 teaspoon coconut extract.
Almond: Decrease vanilla to 1 teaspoon; add 1 teaspoon almond extract.

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