Fusion Pound Cake

Bahan Yang Perlu:
3 cawan tepung cake
6 biji telur besar
1 pound butter
1 pound gula halus
2 sudu teh pure vanilla extract
1/2 sudu teh salt
1/2 cawan buttermilk
1/2 sudu teh baking soda
1 sudu teh baking powder 

Directions:
Sift the flour, baking soda,and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Stir in salt and the sugar.

I use a large spoon for this. Next I add the butter.

Emak would melt the butter in a pan over slow heat to make it blend easier.

You can do this or just let the butter soften at room temperature.

Add the eggs, whole. At this begin mixing on slow.

I slowly add my buttermilk,and then the vanilla extract.

After it is thoroughly stirred, I turn the mixer up to medium for a few minutes

and then finally on high.

If the mixture is a little thick add just a touch more buttermilk.

If you don't mix things thoroughly you will have lumps that will form air bubbles in your mixture and leave holes in your finished cake.

It was always a matter of pride not to have these air pocket holes in our cakes

so we always made sure we got all of the lumps. In the pre-electric-mixer day that involved a lot of whipping the cake by hand.

Usually didn't have a hand cranked mixer that worked well, so this involved a large mixing spoon to whip it. Some old timers even counted the number of times they whipped the mixture - sort of made it fun and you didn't notice your arm tiring.
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Take your standard tube cake pan and oil it with butter. Then lightly flour the oiled pan.

Shake the excess flour from the pan.
Pour the mix in, bake the cake for about 1 hour and twenty minutes.

Keep looking at how your cake is doing through the oven door but avoid opening the door too much while it is cooking as I have seen this, or jarring a cake, cause it to collapse.

When you think it is done, do the toothpick test.
Stick a wooden toothpick into one of the thickest parts of the cake.

If it's dry when you pull it our, the cake is done.
Allow the cake to cool 15 or 20 minutes in the pan.

Then gently remove it, and stick it on your favorite decorative cake plate.