Luby's Lemon Sour Cream Cake
List of Ingredients
1/2 lb (1 cup) softened butter
1/2 cup solid all-vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar
5 extra-large eggs
1 cup sour cream
1/4 cup whole milk
3 cups all-purpose flour sifted with 1/2 t baking powder
2 t lemon extract
1 t vanilla extract
Lemon Sauce (recipe follows)
Recipe
Preheat oven to 325 deg. In a large bowl, cream butter, shortening and sugar until smooth and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, then add sour cream and milk; mix until smooth. Blend flour mixture into batter; remove beaters and stir in the extracts. Pour into a greased, floured 10-inch tube pan and bake 1 hour 30 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cake in the pan 10 minutes. Remove the cake from pan and cool on a rack. Drizzle with Lemon Sauce to serve.
Lemon Sauce
2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
4 T melted butter
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
In a medium-size bowl, whisk together sugar, butter and lemon juice until smooth. Use as directed above
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