Name: Camille's Buttermilk Pound Cake Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 2 h
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup such as Crisco vegetable shortening; 2 cups white sugar; 4 eggs; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 3 cups all purpose flour; 1 tsp Baking Soda; 1 tsp baking powder; ¾ tsp salt; 1½ cups buttermilk; 2 tsp for dusting confectioner's sugar

How To Make Buttermilk Pound Cake

Impress everyone with this fluffy Buttermilk Pound Cake made with basic baking ingredients, buttermilk, eggs, vegetable shortening, and vanilla.

Preparation: 15 minutes

Cooking: 1 hour

Cool Time: 45 minutes

Total: 2 hours

Serves:

Ingredients

1cupvegetable shortening,such as Crisco
2cupswhite sugar
4eggs
1tspvanilla extract
3cupsall purpose flour
1tspbaking soda
1tspbaking powder
¾tspsalt
1½cupsbuttermilk
2tspconfectioner’s sugar,for dusting

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch fluted tube pan (such as a Bundt®).
Beat the vegetable shortening with sugar in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
Beat the eggs into the mixture 1 at a time, incorporating each egg before adding the next.
Mix the vanilla into the egg mixture.
Whisk the 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 the batter into the prepared tube pan.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 1 hour until the cake is lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
Let the cake cool and dust with confectioners’ sugar.