4 c Cake flour 2 ts Baking soda 1 t Salt 1 t Ground nutmeg 1 c Unsalted butter -- softened 2 c Granulated sugar 2 Eggs 1 tb Vanilla extract 2 c Buttermilk or sour cream Confectioner's sugar -for dusting Recipe by: the California Culinary Academy 1. Butter and flour a 12-cup tube pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sift flour, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg together. 2. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg is added. Stir in vanilla. 3. Stir half of the sifted flour mixture into the butter-sugar mixture. Add 1 cup of the buttermilk. Add the other half of the flour mixture, then the remaining buttermilk. 4. Pour batter into prepared tube pan and bake until a wooden skewer inserted 2 inches from edge comes out clean (about 1 hour and 5 minutes). Cool cake in p
an 10 to 15 minutes; invert onto a cooling rack, remove pan, and cool completely before serving. Transfer to a serving plate. Dust with confectioners' sugar.
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