Coconut Sour Cream Pound Cake

Coconut flavoring is the secret to the texture of a smooth, moist pound cake that doesn't contain shreds of coconut.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 1 hr 20 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 35 mins
• Calories: 443 Calories

Ingredients

• 6 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 cups sifted cake flour
• 1 tablespoon coconut extract
• 1 cup vegetable shortening (such as Crisco®)
• 0.25 teaspoon baking soda

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch tube pan.

Step 2

Beat vegetable shortening and sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until mixture is creamy. Beat eggs into shortening mixture, one at a time, letting each egg blend in before adding the next. Beat in sour cream until smooth.

Step 3

Gradually stir cake flour and baking soda into the moist ingredients until batter is smooth; stir in coconut extract. Scoop batter into prepared tube pan.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean or with moist crumbs, 1 hour and 20 minutes.