Cornmeal Pound Cake

Name: Cornmeal Pound Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking soda; 158 milliliters butter, softened; 5 larges egg whites; 5 larges egg yolks; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 118 milliliters stone-ground white cornmeal; 1 Tbsp stone-ground white cornmeal; 1 teaspoon grated lemon rind; 237 milliliters low-fat sour cream; 1 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters stone-ground white grits; 473 milliliters sugar, divided; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cornmeal Pound Cake is a vegetarian recipe with 16 servings. One portion of this dish contains roughly 5g of protein, 11g of fat, and a total of 292 calories. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have salt, stone-ground grits, flour, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 32

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Oven

Coat a 10-inch tube pan with cooking spray; dust with 1 tablespoon cornmeal.

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Cooking Spray

Cornmeal

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Frying Pan

Place 1 3/4 cups sugar, butter, rind, and vanilla in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy.

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Vanilla

Butter

Sugar

Beef

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Blender

Bowl

Add egg yolks, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in sour cream.

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Sour Cream

Egg Yolk

Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife.

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All Purpose Flour

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Measuring Cup

Knife

Combine flour, 1/2 cup cornmeal, grits, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl; stir well with a whisk.

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Baking Soda

Grits

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Add flour mixture to sugar mixture, stirring to combine.

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Beat egg whites with a mixer at high speed until foamy. Gradually add 1/4 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Gently stir one-fourth of egg white mixture into batter; gently fold in remaining egg white mixture. Spoon batter into prepared pan.

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Egg Whites

Sugar

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Blender

Frying Pan

Bake at 325 for 50 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in cake comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool cake completely on wire rack.

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Wire Rack