Sunday, July 13, 2008

Streusel Pound Cake


The is a really nice cake, especially if you need to travel with it.

1/2 cup nuts + 2 tablespoons sugar + 1 teaspoon cinnamon ground up in a food processor

2 sticks butter (8 ounces)
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of salt
1 cup sour cream or yogurt or buttermilk or sour milk

Amply butter and flour a 10 inch bundt pan
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Cream the butter, sugar, and eggs
Mix the dry ingredients.
Add the dry ingredients and the liquid to the creamed mixture.
Put half of the streusel mix into the pan, spreading it around as much as possible.
Put half of the batter into the pan.
Put in the other half of the streusel.
Put in the rest of the batter.
Bake for about 50-60 minutes.

Cool for about 10 minutes, then turn the cake out onto a rack.

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