Kentucky Blue Ribbon All-Butter Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 0.5 teaspoons salt
• 3 cups white sugar
• 1.5 cups butter , softened
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan with some butter and dust lightly with flour.

2. 2

   Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.

3. 3

   Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk. Mix in vanilla extract. Pour batter into the prepared tube pan.

4. 4

   Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack and let cool completely, about 30 minutes.