Black folks pound cake

 

Ingredients

3 cups flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter at room temp (2 sticks)
3 cups sugar
6 eggs at room temp
⅓ cup fresh lemon juice
1 ¼ tablespoons grated lemon zest
1 cup sour cream

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Grease tube or bundt pan. Dust pan with flour, then tap out excess.
Sift flour, baking soda and salt into medium bowl, set aside.
Using electric mixer, beat butter in large bowl at lot to medium speed until fluffy. Gradually add sugar and beat for 5 minutes.
Add eggs 1 at a time, beating just until combined after each egg is added. Beat in lemon juice and zest.
Using a rubber spatula, mix in dry ingredients. Mix in sour cream.
Pour batter to prepared pan. ** The batter will be thick.
Bake cake until tester inserted near center comes out clean, about 1 hour 20 minutes.
Let cake cool in pan on rack 15 minutes then turn out cake onto a plate or cake stand.
Carefully turn cake right side up on rack and cool completely.
For an extra touch – drizzle glaze made of 1 cup confectioners sugar and 2-3 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice over cake.