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!
Servings: 15
Ingredients
- 3 sticks unsalted butter, softened (339g)
- 3 cups sugar (600g)
- 5 large eggs, room temperature (If in a hurry, place the eggs in a bowl of warm water for 5 minutes.)
- 3 cups all purpose flour (375g)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder (2g)
- 1 cup whole milk (235g)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (8g)
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract (optional) (4g)
Instructions
- Grease and flour a tube pan.(We used a pan with 12 cup baking capacity.)
- Lower the oven rack to the next to lowest position. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a separate bowl whisk the flour and baking powder to combine, set aside for later.
- Cream the butter with the paddle attachment in your mixer, gradually add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy 3 to 5 minutes.
- Add the eggs one at a time blending after each to incorporate.
- Add the vanilla and lemon extract to the l cup of milk. Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk to the butter, sugar, egg mixture. Begin and end with the dry ingredients. I add the dry 3 times and milk twice.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- This makes approximately 8 cups of batter.
- Allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before flipping out onto wire rack.
- **This is also the recipe that we use in our petit fours video! For petit fours, we pour into an 11x15 inch pan so that they are nice and short (approximately 1 ¼ inches tall).
Notes
*Make sure that you are using All Purpose Flour rather than Self Rising.
Baking times may vary depending on the size and type of your bundt pan. Keep in mind that you shouldn't fill your pan beyond approximately ⅔ full as your cake will need space to rise.
This cake can be wrapped tightly and frozen for up to three months! To thaw, we like to move to the wrapped cake to the refrigerator the day be for we need it. Then, move to the kitchen counter the next morning (under a cake dome or in a bakery box or airtight container).