Vanilla Pound Cake with Nutella Swirl

I must give all the credit for this cake to Sally! She told me about it so I looked up the recipe and viola! My first attempt at cake from scratch was a success I would say.

Ingredients:

4 eggs, at room temperature

2 tsp vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

3/4 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

2 sticks butter, softened

1 1/4 cups sugar

1 jar of Nutella

Beat the eggs and vanilla together in a small bowl and set aside. In another bowl, mix together the flour, salt and baking powder and set that aside as well.

Beat the sugar and butter together with an electric mixer until light and fluffy (about 3 minutes). With the mixer on a low setting, slowly pour the egg mixture into the butter/sugar mixture and beat. Add the flour mixture about 1/2 cup a time and continue mixing. After all the flour is mixed in, continue to mix for another minute or so.

Microwave the nutella for about 10 seconds. (don't make it too runny!!) Pour 1/3 of that batter into a greased 9x5 inch loaf pan. Layer a good amount of the nutella over the batter. Pour another 1/3 of the batter on top. Do another layer of nutella. Pour the rest of the batter on top. Take a butter knife and run it through the cake a few times to create a swirl effect.

Bake at 325 for about an hour to an hour and 15 minutes or until it passes the toothpick test.

I think a nice nutella glaze would be yummy on top of this.