Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe is a simple classic and always a crowd-pleaser! It’s creamy and smooth on the inside with a crispy crust on the outside and top. I love that!
Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe takes 90 minutes to bake since it’s so dense, but well worth the time. It is flavored with vanilla extract and has a vanilla/buttery combo flavor.
This buttery cake is great with fresh fruit, fruit sauce, cool whip, caramel, chocolate or plain. It’s very versatile; this is one reason I like it for potlucks and parties. You can serve a Pound Cake Bar with various toppings and everyone will be happy!
This Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe is another classic Pound Cake recipe I’ve made for my Pound Cake series. You can get all the recipes here.
Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe Tips
- Always use real butter in pound cake recipes unless the recipe specifically gives you a substitution
- Use good quality ingredients. Premium flour, butter and vanilla especially. It really does make a difference in taste
- The standard in any recipe is to use Grade A Large eggs. If you use a smaller egg use this guide for substitutions
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You may enjoy my Old Fashioned Blue Ribbon Pound Cake (video) or this trifle.
Always a crowd-pleaser, Sour Cream Pound Cake Recipe is soft, moist and buttery.
- 1 cup real butter no substitutions
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 6 large eggs room temperature
- 8 ounces sour cream room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Coat a 10-inch bundt pan or tube pan with solid vegetables shortening and flour.
- Cream butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time beating each one in before adding the next.
- Stir in sour cream.
- Combine flour, salt, and baking powder in a small bowl then add to batter 1/2 cup at a time until combined.
- Stir in vanilla.
- Spoon batter into prepared pan.
- Bake 325 degrees for 80 to 85 minutes. I always like to start testing at 75 minutes. Carefully insert a long wooden pick into center of cake. Cake is done when dry crumbs or no crumbs stick to the pick.
- Allow cake to cool on a wire rack for 1 to 20 minutes before inverting on a tray to cool completely.
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Tammy McDowell says
Thank you so much for this recipe. My Aunt Myrlene had a recipe for a sour cream pound cake that was the best thing I had ever tasted. In one of the moves, I lost the book it was written in. This is the closest I’ve ever found and when I make it, it reminds me of very special times with a very special lady.
Paula says
Aw, thank you so much for telling me! That makes my heart smile and it’s the reason I love sharing recipes!
Sherelleyne says
Enjoy all your stuff especially the pound cakes
Janelle says
Excited that I found this web site and cant wait to start making these recipes!! Thank you
Nati says
This was excellent, but too sweet. Next time will lower the sugar 2 3/4 cup instead
Berta says
My humble opinion, 3 cups of sugar for 3 cups of flour might be too sweet for some people. Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Paula says
Almost all pound cakes have that ratio