Coconut Sour Cream Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup vegetable shortening , such as Crisco®
• 3 cups white sugar
• 6 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 3 cups sifted cake flour
• 0.25 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 tablespoon coconut extract

Instructions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch tube pan.

2. 2

   Beat vegetable shortening and sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until mixture is creamy. Beat eggs into shortening mixture, one at a time, letting each egg blend in before adding the next. Beat in sour cream until smooth.

3. 3

   Gradually stir cake flour and baking soda into the moist ingredients until batter is smooth; stir in coconut extract. Scoop batter into prepared tube pan.

4. 4

   Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean or with moist crumbs, 1 hour and 20 minutes.