Mom's Almond Bundt Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon almond extract
• 4 egg whites, stiffly beaten
• 3 cups flour, sifted three times
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup milk
• almonds

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350. grease bundt pan then put large dabs of butter along creases of pan, embedding an almond in each dab.
• 2 cream butter.
• 3 sift the two sugars together and gradually add to butter. scrape bowl.
• 4 add unbeaten egg yolks, one at a time. beat until smooth. scrape bowl.
• 5 mix in extracts. scrape bowl.
• 6 sift flour 3 times, re-measure, sift with baking powder and salt 3 times (mom was emphatic about the sifting).
• 7 starting with flour and ending with flour, add flour and milk alternately to batter. scrape bowl.
• 8 fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
• 9 pour batter into prepared pan.
• 10 bake 1 1/4 hours or until toothpick comes out clean.
• 11 cool in pan 10 minutes. remove to wire rack and cool completely.