Brown Sugar-Buttermilk Pound Cakes

Ingredients

• 0.5 teaspoon baking soda 
• 1 cup firmly brown sugar dark packed
• 1 cup butter softened
• 1 cup buttermilk 
• 3 large eggs 
• 3 cups flour all-purpose
• 1 cup granulated sugar 
• 0.1 teaspoon salt 
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 

Equipment

• frying pan
• oven
• loaf pan
• hand mixer
• aluminum foil

Directions

1. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugars, beating until light and fluffy.
2. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating at low speed just until blended after each addition.
3. Stir together buttermilk and baking soda.
4. Combine flour and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed after each addition just until blended. Stir in vanilla.
5. Spray 5 (5 3/4- x 3 1/4-inch) disposable foil loaf pans with baking spray.
6. Pour batter evenly into pans (about 1 cup batter in each pan).
7. Bake at 325 for 50 to 55 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans on wire racks 10 minutes.
8. Remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks.