Categories: bread
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 8 oz sour cream
- 2 tsp vanilla
Directions
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Grease a loaf pan and preheat the oven to 350F.
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Sift together flour and other dry ingredients.
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Beat butter in a bowl until smooth. Add sugar and beat again. Add eggs one at a time, then add vanilla. Beat until fluffy.
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Alternately add sour cream and flour, starting with sour cream, in two or three additions.
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Pour into pan, smooth top, and bake for 1 hour 5 minutes, or until tester comes out clean.
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NIC’S NOTES: I added about 1 teaspoon of almond extract with the vanilla and added 1 cup of dried cranberries to the batter just before I put it into the pan. The original recipe suggests other variations, which basically involve adding a cup of fruit or nuts and a teaspoon or two of spices, if you wish. I would try it again with nonfat sour cream or yogurt, just to feel a tiny bit less guilty about loving it so much.