This is my go to recipe for Pound Cake. If you ever want to make people really really happy, this is the recipe for you. And your house will smell delicious for hours.

Char

From The New Moosewood Cookbook, Mollie Katzen

Prep: 15 mins

Baking time: 50-60  mins

Yield: 12 to 16 servings.

Butter and flour for the pans

1 lb. (4 sticks) butter, softened

3 cups sugar

6 eggs

4 cups flour

1 Tbs. baking powder

1/2 tsp. salt

1 cup milk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

1. preheat oven to 350F. Butter and flour the bottom and sides of a 10-inch tube or bundt pan.

2. in a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar with an electric mixer at high speed until light and fluffy.

3. add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Set aside.

4. Sift together the dry ingredients in a separate bowl.  Mix together the milk and vanilla. Add dry and wet alternately to butter mixture, beginning and ending with dry. Mix by hand - just enough to blend thoroughly without excess beating.

5. Spread the butter into the prepared pan. Bake 50-60 minutes or until a sharp knife inserted all the way down comes out clean. Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto a plate. Cool completely before slicing.