Recipe for pound cake?!
Recipe for pound cake?
Does anyone have recipe for pound cake and why is it called that?
Answers:
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This website is awesome! It has tons of recipes for Pound Cake, 582, to be exact!
There is a reason why they call this "pound" cake. It's so loaded with butter that you may as well just pack it directly onto your thighs.
it's called pound cake because it used to use a pound of butter, a pound of eggs, a pound of sugar, and a pound of flour.
Awesome Pound Cake
3 cups cake flour
6 large eggs
1 pound butter (softened)
1 pound sugar
2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Sift the flour, baking soda,and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Stir in salt and the sugar. I use a large spoon for this. Next I add the butter. Add the eggs, whole.
At this point I break out my mixer and begin mixing on slow. I slowly add my buttermilk, and then the vanilla extract. After it is thoroughly stirred, I turn the mixer up to medium for a few minutes, and then finally on high. If the mixture is a little thick I add just a touch more buttermilk. If you don't mix things thoroughly you will have lumps that will form air bubbles in your mixture and leave holes in your finished cake.
Take your standard tube cake pan or loaf pan, and oil it with
butter. Then lightly flour the oiled pan. Shake the excess flour from the pan. Pour the mix in, bake the cake for about 1 hour
and twenty minutes. Keep looking at how your cake is doing through the oven door but avoid opening the door too much while it is cooking as I have seen this, or jarring a cake, cause it to collapse.
When you think it is done, do the toothpick test. Stick a wooden toothpick into one of the thickest parts of the cake. If it's dry when you pull it our, the cake is done.
Allow the cake to cool 15 or 20 minutes in the pan. Then gently remove it, and stick it on your favorite decorative cake plate.
Chocolate Pound Cake:
1? hours 15 min prep
1 tube pan or two loaves
1/2 lb butter
1/2 cup shortening
3 cups sugar
5 eggs
3 cups sifted flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup cocoa
1 1/4 cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1. Cream butter and shortening together in large bowl.
2. Gradually add sugar.
3. Add eggs, one at a time.
4. Sift flour, salt, baking powder and cocoa together.
5. Gradually add to butter and shortening mixture.
6. Add milk and vanilla.
7. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 25 minutes in greased and floured pans.
8. Makes 2 loaves or 1 tube pan.
I don't know why it's called that, but here's a recipe:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/poundca...
Go to food network.com and get Paula Deen's pound cake recipes. I don't really know why it's called that.
This is great recipe:
Mildred's Sour Cream Pound Cake
1. 3 cups flour
2. 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3. 1 cup butter
4. 3 cups sugar
5. 6 eggs
6. 1 cup BREAKSTONE'S or KNUDSEN Sour Cream
7. 2 tablespoons vanilla
1. Mix flour and baking soda. Beat butter and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
2. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture, alternately in thirds with sour cream, beating well after each addition. Add vanilla; mix well. Pour into greased 10-inch tube or 12-cup fluted tube pan.
3. Bake at 325 degrees F for 1 hour 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 10 minutes. Remove from pan. Cool completely.
Yield: 20 servings
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It has recipes for quite a few tasty cakes that can be prepared easily from home ..