Jerry Anne Cardamom Cake
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, plus some for greasing the pan
- 2 3/4 cups sifted cake flour, plus some for dusting the pan
- 1 pound confectioners' sugar
- 6 large eggs
- 1/2 teaspoon hulled cardamom seed, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
- Grease and flour a 10- to 12-cup tube pan.
- Beat the butter until creamy.
- Add the confectioners' sugar and beat until very fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time.
- Stir in the flour.
- Mix in the cardamom, orange and lemon zests and the vanilla.
- Pour the batter into the pan.
- Bake for about 1 hour or until the cake springs back to the touch and starts to pull from the sides.
- Cool 10 minutes.
- Unmold onto a serving plate.
- Serve warm or cold, cut into thin slices.
unsalted butter, cake flour, sugar, eggs, cardamom, orange zest, lemon zest, vanilla
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/6904 (may not work)