North Carolina State Fair - True Pound Cake Recipe - Blue Ribbon Winner 1993

INGREDIENTS

  • 3 cups sugar (sifted)

  • 3 sticks of butter

  • 8 eggs

  • 3 cups of flour (sifted twice)

DIRECTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Grease and flour a loaf or bundt pan. Set aside.

  2. Cream together butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add flour 1/2 cup at a time. beat well after each addition.

  3. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

  4. Remove from oven and cool in pan slightly before inverting on plate to finish cooling.

YIELD: 12 to 16 servings

HINT:

NEVER substitute margarine (or “light” butter) for the butter in a pound cake. Do not test cake for doneness until it has been baking for at least one hour.

Everybody was looking at me when I won, so I just said ‘You don’t know how long I’ve tried to get that blue ribbon!’
— Blue Ribbon Winner, Linda Adams, Clayton NC