Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pound cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
See how to make pound cake from scratch the easy way. Pound cake is a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. Pound cakes are generally baked in either a loaf pan or a Bundt mold, and served either dusted with powdered sugar, lightly glazed, or sometimes with a coat of icing.
Pound Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Pound Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pound cake using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pound Cake:
- Prepare 1 lb butter (softened)
- Make ready 2 1/4 cups sugar (split)
- Make ready 8 eggs (split whites and yolks)
- Take 2 tsp vanilla
- Get 2 tsp almond extract
- Take 1/3 cup bourbon/whiskey
- Prepare 3 cups flour
- Take Your choice of frosting
Pound Cake is one of those old fashioned cake recipes that will always have place on my dessert table. Pound cake is the best friend of the dessert world. It can be dressed up with whipped cream and berries, slathered with butter and placed on a grill, or simply sliced and enjoyed alongside. This recipe is an updated version.
Instructions to make Pound Cake:
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and 2 cups sugar until it’s a light yellow color. Gradually add in egg yolks. Mix in Bourbon, almond extract and vanilla to the mixture. Slowly add in flour.
- In a separate bowl add egg whites and remaining sugar. Beat until stiff peaks. Fold in into batter.
- Pour into a greased angel food cake pan. Cook at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Let cool and frost.
Pound cakes first originated in Europe. That's because a classic pound cake. See more ideas about Cake recipes, Pound cake recipes, Pound cake. Italian Lemon Pound Cake is the only lemon pound cake you will ever need. The name Pound Cake comes from the fact that the original pound cake contained one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.
So that is going to wrap it up with this special food pound cake recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am confident you will make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!
