Camille's Buttermilk Pound Cake

Simply the BEST pound cake EVER! Impress your friends with this really simple recipe that they'll ask you for in the end. Store in fridge and it's extra delicious!

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 60 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
• Calories: 433 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 4 eggs
• 1 ½ cups buttermilk
• 2 teaspoons confectioners' sugar for dusting
• 1 cup vegetable shortening (such as Crisco®)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9-inch fluted tube pan (such as a Bundt®).

Step 2

Beat vegetable shortening with sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy; beat eggs into mixture one at a time, incorporating each egg before adding the next. Mix vanilla into egg mixture.

Step 3

Whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a bowl; stir into liquid ingredients in several additions, alternating with buttermilk to make a smooth batter. Pour batter into prepared tube pan.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until cake is lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cake cool and dust with confectioners' sugar.