Ingredients Original recipe yields 12 servings Ingredient Checklist 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 3 cups white sugar 1 ½ cups butter, softened 5 eggs 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions Instructions Checklist Step 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan with some butter and dust lightly with flour. Step 2 Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Step 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. Step 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.
