
I had a “hankerin'” for pound cake last week. So I opened up this “shall remain nameless for now” cookbook that I received a while back. In there was a recipe for a pound cake that sounded really good. So I went about making it and using up a lot of ingredients, all for it to overflow in the pan and be a complete flop. MAD. But I got over it. Almost.

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This photo is from the first time I made this in August 2009, the pictures that appear above this one are from when I made it in March 2011. |




Serves: 2
20 minPrep Time
75 minCook Time
1 hr, 35 Total Time
Ingredients
- 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened, plus additional for buttering pan
- 3 cups sifted cake flour (not self-rising; sift before measuring) plus additional for dusting
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups sugar
- 7 large eggs, at room temperature 30 minutes
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Put oven rack in middle position, but do not preheat oven.
- Generously butter pan and dust with flour, knocking out excess flour.
- Sift together sifted flour (3 cups) and salt into a bowl. Repeat sifting into another bowl (flour will have been sifted 3 times total).
- Beat together butter (2 sticks) and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes in a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment or 6 to 8 minutes with a handheld mixer.
- Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition, then beat in vanilla.
- Reduce speed to low and add half of flour, then all of cream, then remaining flour, mixing well after each addition.
- Scrape down side of bowl, then beat at medium-high speed 5 minutes.
- Batter will become creamier and satiny.
- Spoon batter into pan and rap pan against work surface once or twice to eliminate air bubbles.
- Place pan in (cold) oven and turn oven temperature to 350°F. Bake until golden and a wooden pick or skewer inserted in middle of cake comes out with a few crumbs adhering, 1 to 1 1/4 hours.
- Cool cake in pan on a rack 30 minutes. Run a thin knife around inner and outer edges of cake, then invert rack over pan and invert cake onto rack to cool completely.
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Your pound cake looks really awesome - and now you've given me a hankering for one....and if I had enough eggs in my house today I'd be making this! I will be bookmarking however! Maybe for mother's day :)