50 Favorite Pound Cake Recipes
In this post, we are sharing our FAVORITE pound cake recipes!
We've never met a pound cake that we didn't love- and over the years, we've shared so many different flavors! Today we are featuring our favorites.
Some of our most popular are our Buttermilk Pound Cake, Cream Cheese Pound Cake, Strawberry Pound Cake, and Lemon Pound Cake. But there are so many others that we love!
In this growing collection of pound cakes, we are featuring classic pound cakes, fruity pound cakes, chocolate pound cakes, and more.
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How to Decorate a Pound Cake
Aside from the wonderful flavor, the best thing about making a pound cake (or bundt cake) is that they are so quick and easy to decorate.
Whether you choose a simple vanilla glaze, chocolate drip, a dusting of powdered sugar, a dollop of sweetened whipped cream, or a big scoop of vanilla ice cream, you can never go wrong!
Enjoy the Pound Cakes!
We hope that you enjoy scrolling through! Keep these favorite pound cake recipes in mind for your next birthday, holiday, or cake craving ;0)
Let us know if you try any of these cakes- we would love to see your photos in the comments below! Happy baking!
50 Favorite Pound Cake Recipes
Sharing our FAVORITE pound cake recipes! If you are looking for the perfect pound cake, we have many to share with you! Buttery, perfectly dense and flavorful pound cake recipes are just a click away ;0)
Marble Pound Cake
This scratch marble pound cake has a wonderfully rich flavor with just the right amount of chocolate. It is ultra moist, incredibly soft, and surprisingly easy to make!
Lemon Mascarpone Pound Cake
This flavorful Lemon Mascarpone Cake is so simple to make! The mascarpone cheese in the lemon pound cake batter adds richness and a velvety soft texture.
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
This amazing cream cheese pound cake has added richness from the cream cheese in the recipe, and the most wonderful, velvety texture! This pound cake is easy to make and guaranteed to please!
Pina Colada Pound Cake
This moist and rich Pina Colada Pound Cake has wonderful flavor from crushed pineapple, flaked coconut, and a rum glaze. It is a great party or celebration cake, from anniversaries to New Year's Eve, adult birthdays, and more!
Oreo Pound Cake
This moist, Oreo Pound Cake is filled with crushed Oreos and topped with a rich chocolate glaze. It is such an easy and delicious scratch pound cake recipe!
Maple Pound Cake
This decadent Maple Pound Cake is one of our favorites for fall! It is ultra moist with wonderful maple flavor. We topped it with homemade caramel glaze and chopped pecans.
Apple Pound Cake
This decadent pound cake is flavored with granny smith apples, spices, brown sugar, and a homemade caramel glaze! So delicious and perfect for fall.
White Chocolate Cranberry Pound Cake
This White Chocolate Cranberry Pound Cake recipe is so moist with a soft crumb and has the perfect balance of sweetness from white chocolate along with a hint of tartness from white cranberries. Keep this recipe in mind for fall and winter!
Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
This amazing Chocolate Chip Pound Cake has all of the flavors that you love in a chocolate chip cookie! It is super moist and tender thanks to the cake flour, sour cream, and brown sugar in the recipe.
Mascarpone Pound Cake
This Mascarpone Pound Cake is so decadent and delicious! This cake is so buttery, moist, and velvety soft!
Praline Pound Cake
This moist, decadent Praline Pound Cake has fantastic flavor from brown sugar, toasted pecans, and a homemade praline glaze.
Banana Pound Cake
This ultra moist Banana Pound Cake has a fine crumb and amazing banana flavor. It is topped with a homemade caramel glaze.
Coconut Lime Pound Cake
This decadent scratch Coconut Lime Pound Cake has the perfect balance of flavors! It is so moist, delicious, and easy to make! Keep it in mind for spring and summer gatherings!
Five Flavor Pound Cake
This decadent Five Flavor Pound Cake is so delicious, with flavors of butter, rum, coconut, vanilla, and lemon!
Pineapple Coconut Pound Cake
This decadent Pineapple Coconut Pound Cake is ultra moist and delicious, with bits of pineapple and coconut in every slice!
Cherry Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
This moist Cherry Chocolate Chip Pound Cake is moist, decadent, and has amazing flavor!
Caramel Eggnog Pound Cake
We love this delicious Caramel Eggnog Pound Cake for the holidays! It is extremely moist and flavorful with added richness from eggnog, and flavor from warm spices, brown sugar, and caramel. So good!
Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake
This lemon cream cheese pound cake has an ultra fine, moist crumb and velvety soft texture thanks to the cream cheese in the cake batter! You will love this easy and delicious pound cake recipe!
White Chocolate Pound Cake
This delicious White Chocolate Pound Cake is so moist and has wonderful white chocolate flavor!
Pineapple Pound Cake
This moist, decadent Pineapple Pound Cake has bits of pineapple in every slice! Keep this delicious cake in mind for your special occasions no matter what the season!
Orange Coconut Pound Cake
This moist, velvety Orange Coconut Pound Cake has a fine crumb and the perfect balance of orange and coconut flavor.
Red Velvet Pound Cake
This moist Red Velvet Pound Cake has wonderful richness from the butter and cream in the recipe, and the perfect amount of chocolate flavor. We love it with cream cheese frosting!
Butter Pecan Pound Cake
This moist Butter Pecan Pound Cake is moist and tender with a fine crumb. It has wonderful flavor from buttered pecans, light brown sugar, and a caramel glaze!
Buttermilk Pound Cake
This ultra moist buttermilk pound cake is so velvety soft with a melt-in-your-mouth texture- we just love this recipe!
Gingerbread Pound Cake
This amazingly moist, flavorful Gingerbread Pound Cake has a velvety soft texture and fantastic flavor! You will love this easy recipe- especially in the fall and winter months!
White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake
This moist, tender White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake is so delicious and makes for a beautiful slice too!
Eggnog Pound Cake
This perfectly decadent Eggnog Pound Cake is ultra moist and flavored with eggnog, nutmeg and cinnamon. We've topped it with spiced cream cheese frosting. Keep this recipe in mind for your Christmas and winter gatherings!
Lemon Orange Pound Cake
Moist, flavorful Lemon Orange Pound Cake! This buttery, moist pound cake has wonderful citrus flavor.
Three Layer Pound Cake
This tender, flavorful pound cake is not only delicious, but with three layers of vanilla and chocolate, it is beautiful too!
Neapolitan Pound Cake
This moist ice cream-inspired Neapolitan Pound Cake has amazing chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry flavor! Such a beautiful slice!
Strawberry Pound Cake
This moist Strawberry Pound Cake is heavenly! We love the strawberry flavor- it is sure to become a year-round favorite for the strawberry lovers in your life!
Whipping Cream Pound Cake
This tender, rich pound cake is sure to satisfy your dessert cravings- tastes amazing on it's own, or topped with frosting, ice cream, or berries and whipped cream!
Brown Sugar Toffee Pound Cake
This moist and buttery Brown Sugar Toffee Pound Cake has amazing brown sugar and toffee flavor, and is topped with a luscious caramel icing glaze.
Peach Pound Cake
This buttery Peach Pound Cake is ultra moist with diced peaches folded into the batter!
Pecan Caramel Bundt Cake
This moist Pecan Caramel Bundt Cake is so moist and flavorful! It has a delightful flavor combination of pecans, cinnamon, brown sugar, and a caramel drip.
Lemon Pound Cake
This Lemon Pound Cake is incredibly soft, moist, and delicious! You will love how simple it is to make. Perfect for summer celebrations!
Sweet Potato Pound Cake
This decadent sweet potato pound cake has amazing flavor from sweet potatoes, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger. It is topped with pecans and a caramel glaze. It is the perfect dessert for fall and winter!
Lemon Blueberry Sour Cream Pound Cake
This ultra moist, tender Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake is SO delicious! The sour cream in the recipe gives it a rich flavor and velvety texture.
Pound Cake Recipe- A Classic Southern Favorite
This moist pound cake is SO delicious and easy to make! Serve it plain or topped with berries and cream!
Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake with Peppermint Glaze
The most flavorful Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake with Peppermint Glaze! We love this cake year round, but adding the peppermint glaze makes it the perfect Christmas on winter cake!
7 Up Pound Cake
This retro 7 Up Pound Cake is a tried and true favorite- known for it's light lemon lime flavor and for the 7 Up used in the batter! It has wonderful flavor, soft texture, and a fine crumb.
Rainbow Pound Cake {Rainbow Inside}
Learn how to make a rainbow cake in this free cake video! We're using our go-to pound cake recipe to demonstrate the rainbow technique! So fun (and delicious)!
Sour Cream Pound Cake
This tender, moist pound cake is so delicious! The sour cream in the recipe adds a layer of richness and enhances the texture of this flavorful cake!
Champagne Pound Cake
This Champagne Pound Cake is ultra moist, has a fine crumb, and a light champagne flavor! It is perfect for all sorts of special occasions.
Cherry Pound Cake (with Coconut Frosting)
This moist, tender cherry pound cake is delicious just as it is but we've paired it with a luscious coconut cream cheese frosting for a dessert that is sure to please!
Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake
This moist chocolate cream cheese pound cake has a tender, velvety, texture with a fine crumb. It is sure to satisfy your chocolate cravings but is not an overly rich chocolate cake. It is delicious! We love to dress it up with a simple chocolate glaze.
Lemon Whipping Cream Pound Cake
This Lemon Whipping Cream Pound Cake is melt-in-your-mouth delicious! Super moist, soft, and has wonderful lemon flavor.
Cherry Almond Pound Cake
In this dessert, ultra moist almond pound cake is swirled with cherry for a flavor combination you are guaranteed to love!
Strawberry Swirl Pound Cake
This soft, tender Strawberry Swirl Pound Cake is a slice of heaven! The cake is so moist and has just the right amount of strawberry flavor.
Pumpkin Toffee Pecan Pound Cake
This moist Pumpkin Toffee Pound Cake is so moist and has amazing flavor from pumpkin, toffee, pecans, spices, and a caramel glaze!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pound Cake
This moist Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pound Cake has amazing flavor and a delicious peanut butter glaze.
Almond Sour Cream Pound Cake
This moist, tender Almond Sour Cream Pound Cake is so flavorful and easy to make! If you love almond desserts, you will love this recipe!
Chocolate Whipping Cream Pound Cake
This moist Chocolate Whipping Cream Pound Cake has a velvety soft texture, fine crumb. and the perfect amount of chocolate flavor!
Double Chocolate Pound Cake
This decadent double chocolate pound cake tastes amazing and is so simple to make!
OMGosh they all look incredible! :-) One for every day of the month LOL
Lol thanks Teri- Yes, we need pound cake every day ;0)
Love to use my Nordic Bundt pans for cakes and all these recipes will work but I’d love the gingerbread recipe most!