Small Pound Cake

• butter↗1 cup

  2 sticks

• sugar↗2 cups
• eggs↗4
• plain flour↗2 cups
• baking powder↗1 teaspoon
• evaporated milk↗1 ounce

  can

• vanilla extract↗1 teaspoon

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Important: Let all ingredients become room temperature.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar. Beat until fluffy. Add one egg at a time and beat after each addition.

3. 3

   Measure flour after sifting and add baking powder. Mix dry ingredients alternately with milk and add vanilla. (Lightly fold in dry ingredients--do not beat.).

4. 4

   Grease and flour a small tube or bundt cake pan. Pour batter into pan. Bake in a 325 degree oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes before inverting.

5. 5

   Best served next day after cake has had time to mellow.