Vanilla Bean Pound Cake

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Vanilla Bean Pound Cake

The vanilla sugar is made by splitting a vanilla bean and stirring into a few cups of sugar, then letting it sit for a few days.

• 1-1/2 c all purpose flour
  
• 3/4 tsp baking powder
  
• 1/4 tsp salt
  
• 3/4 c butter at room temperature
  
• 1-1/4 c vanilla sugar
  
• 1 small vanilla bean, split and scraped
  
• 1/2 T vanilla extract
  
• 4 eggs
  

Syrup

• 3/4 c sugar
  
• 1/3 c water
  

Preheat an oven to 325 °F. Liberally butter a loaf pan.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Cream the butter and vanilla sugar. Add the vanilla seeds, vanilla extract, and eggs. Gently mix in the flour mixture.

Bake for 55-70 minutes, until a skewer comes out almost clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then finish cooling on a rack.

Bring the sugar and water to a boil. Add the scraped vanilla bean (used to make the batter) and cool. Soak the cooling cake, on every surface, with the syrup. Let soak in and apply a second coat. Allow to cool completely before slicing.

Keywords: Dessert, Easy

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