Pound Cake

Pound cake refers to a type of rich, sweet cake made originally with approximately a pound each of butter, sugar, and flour.

Recipes

  1. Butter Pound Cake

    My updated version of the traditional "pound of butter, pound of sugar, pound of eggs, pound of flour" recipe produces a pound cake that's soft and moist, yet still has the classic's buttery flavor and springy texture. The recipe is easily altered for the season. The three variations below are ...

  2. Blueberry-Lime Pound Cake

    Lime zest and a tangy lime-juice glaze add zip to the sweet summer flavor of fresh blueberries in this moist, tender pound cake . The cream cheese is an unusual ingredient for pound cake , but it lends the typically springy crumb an exceptional richness and tenderness and helps the cake stay moist ...

  3. Strawberry Pound Cake Ice Cream

    This ice cream recipe uses David Lebovitz's simple formula to create your own custom ice-cream flavor. Here, chunks of pound cake add texture to a sweet strawberry ice cream.

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Articles

  1. What’s on the Menu at Today’s Inaugural Feast?

    Mon, 21 Jan 2013

    Roosevelt’s swearing-in in 1945. The Daily Meal reports guests were fed chicken salad, unbuttered rolls, unfrosted pound cake and coffee. (Although, that might actually beat his third inauguration when the party menu consisted of tomato soup

  2. Holiday Hobbit & Caribbean Eggnog: Best of the Blogs

    Tue, 25 Dec 2012

    Nowadays we associate the caraway seed with rye bread, but in olden days it was standard in a cake, much like a pound cake .” good (cheap) eats And then there’s Coquito , which Jane Lear (Writing on Food and Travel) says is “like eggnog, only better

  3. Delicious Father’s Day Treats (for the Dad Who Has Everything)

    Mon, 11 Jun 2012

    a perfect present. Glazed Mango Pound Cake When's the last time your father tasted a real pound cake ? And has he ever tasted had a mango pound cake with mango glaze? Chocolate-PB Squares My father doesn't even

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Videos

  1. How to Make Pound Cake

    Tue, 21 Feb 2012

    Well today, we'll be making an Old Fashioned Pound Cake from scratch, a really wonderful cake to have ..... it rest of 20 minutes and you should have your pound cake ready. Alright, so our pound cake has been in the oven for about an hour and a

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    -Hey everyone, I'm Judith. Well today, we'll be making an Old Fashioned Pound Cake from scratch, a really wonderful cake to have with a nice cup of tea. So what you will need for this is
    oven. Let it rest of 20 minutes and you should have your pound cake ready. Alright, so our pound cake has been in the oven for about an hour and a half. We left it to rest for about 20 minutes and now that is done, and look at it, really beautiful, golden brown. We slice it up and serve with some fresh berries, fantastic. Alright, so that is how you make your old fashioned pound cake .
  2. Banana Cake Balls

    Wed, 29 Feb 2012

    now I'm going to add to this with 1 banana that's been mashed and it's fully ripe too. Here, I have 1 frozen pound cake that I've thawed and crumbled up into fine crumbs. So, we're going to add that right into the bowl. Now, we

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    been mashed and it's fully ripe too. Here, I have 1 frozen pound cake that I've thawed and crumbled up into fine crumbs. So, we're going to add that right into the bowl. Now, we're just

Food Blogs We Love

  1. Grill It: Grilled Pound Cake Recipe for Serious Eats

    Mon, 25 Jun 2012

    and here's the dessert to prove it: Grilled Pound Cake . Simply butter slices of pound cake before putting them on either an outdoor or indoor ..... this dessert is that it uses already-baked pound cake , so you can't under-bake it. The grilled

  2. Seville Orange & Noyaux Semolina Pound Cake and Never Being Alone in the Kitchen

    Mon, 18 Mar 2013

    Seville Orange & Noyaux Semolina Pound Cake . I’m not sure what possessed me to make a pound cake with said precious extract. I had ..... should use it, when the idea of a pound cake popped up in my head. I’m not

  3. Pound of Fresh: Pound Cake Sandwich Recipe

    Thu, 16 Feb 2012

    2. Pound cake is delicious. But what about when you ..... of the easiest--recipes I know: the Pound Cake Sandwich. This is a sandwich that satisfies: two thick slices of pound cake with delicious (pink is best) frosting

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