Sweet Anise Pound Cake

Jalane Sclafani, Thousand Oaks, CA

Makes 10-12 servings

About ¾ cup butter or margarine

¾ cup sugar

3 large eggs

1 tablespoon grated lemon peel

1 ½ teaspoons anise extract

About 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon salt

With a mixer, beat ¾ cup butter and sugar until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating to blend well with each addition. Beat in lemon peel and anise extract.

Mix 1 ¼ cups flour with baking powder and salt. Add the flour mixture to batter, mixing slowly to incorporate dry ingredients, then beat at medium speed until well blended.

Scrape batter into a buttered and flour-dusted 4 ½ by 8-ince loaf pan. Spread level.

Bake in a 325 degree F oven until cake is golden and just begins to pull from pan sides, about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack about 15 minutes. Invert cake onto a plate and serve warm or cool, cut into thin slices.

226 Calories

3.1 Protein

13 Fat

23 Carbohydrate

203 Sodium

85 Cholesterol