**Preparation**
Take 6 eggs, 1 cup sour cream, 2 sticks of butter out of refrigerator to warm to room temperature.
RECIPE
Ingredients:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Grease and flour tube cake pan or 10 inch pan of your choice.
(I used a 10" x 4" Wilton Cake Pan for this cake without center tube)
2 sticks butter softened
3 cups sugar
6 eggs take out of fridge to warm-- room temperature
1 cup sour cream left to warm to room temperature
2 1/4 cups cake flour
3/4 cup Hershey's cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon real vanilla flavoring OR 2 Tablespoons Watkins Imitation Vanilla flavoring** note most recipes call for 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavoring and that is what you can add if you wish; we just use lots of vanilla and love it. The choice is yours.**
I love the cracks in the crust because I just happen to love a crusty, flaky, delicious crust on my baked goods.
Instructions:
Cream butter in mixing bowl of stand mixer
Add sugar beat well until it is dissolved really good
Add eggs, one at a time, beating until mixed before adding another.
Do this after each egg addition.
Add half of sour cream
mix thoroughly
Add half dry ingredients**(flour, baking powder, cocoa)
mix thoroughly
Add the rest of the sour cream, mixing well
Add remainder of dry ingredients and mix thoroughly
Add vanilla flavoring
Bake for 1 hour and test with toothpick for doneness. Toothpick will come out clean when done.
It usually takes mine about 1 hour and 20 to 30 minutes.
Cool on wire rack for 5 minutes
slide flat spatula around cake in pan
slide small spatula or butter knife around middle tube
carefully turn pan over rest cake in hand or a flat plate then quickly put on wire rack to cool. Then turn cake over to cool the other side.
If your cake is as crusty as this I would cool like shown because you will want to save the wonderful crusty crumbs on your cake so every piece will be delicious.
I served ours with fresh strawberries and freshly whipped cream! Oh my goodness there is nothing like it!
This recipe is very similar to our regular Sour Cream Pound which can be found at the main blog Hibiscus House
Enjoy!
Dolly