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Buttermilk Poundcake with Buttermilk Sauce

Servings 0

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups flour
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 2 sticks butter room temp
  • 5 eggs room temp
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 3/4 tsp soda
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla (not imitation)

Buttermilk Sauce

  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/4 cup buttermilk
  • 1 TBL light corn syrup
  • 1/4 tsp soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F
  • Grease and flour a tube pan
  • Cream butter and sugar until fluffy
  • Add eggs yolks (reserve egg whites). Beat until light.
  • Add all the remaining ingredients.
  • Beat egg whites in a separate bowl until stiff and fold by hand into batter.
  • Pour into the greased and floured tube pan
  • Bake 325 for about an hour, until a toothpick comes out clean
  • While the cake is baking make the buttermilk sauce

Buttermilk Sauce

  • To a small saucepan set on low heat add sugar and butter
  • Add buttermilk, corn syrup, and soda.
  • Cook to full rolling boil, stirring constantly to prevent from scorching
  • Remove from heat. Add vanilla.
  • Pour over cake after you remove it from the oven. Let sit.
  • After cake has cooled for a bit invert onto a serving plate.
  • Serve with whipped cream
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