Sour Cream Cake - butter

Method

• Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Heat oven to 300°. Separate eggs while cold.
• Warm yolks and whites to room temperature.
• In large bowl, cream together butter and sugar.
• Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition.
• Sift flour 3 times.
• Mix baking soda into sour cream.
• Add flour and sour cream to butter mixture alternately.
• Add almond and vanilla extract.
• Beat egg whites until stiff.
• Fold into batter.
• Pour into pan and bake for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours or until cake tester comes out clean.