Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed

Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed is my personal analysis of all many pound cakes from classic to those with a little more flair. Pound Cakes are my very favorite dessert to make. Therefore, I decided to review pound cake recipes to see which ones are the best, which ones need tweaking, and which ones need tossing. As well, I offer many tips in each post on how to cook the perfect pound cake. Below, are all the recipes I’ve tested. Simply click on the photo for the review and recipe.

Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed – History

What is a ‘Pound Cake’?

A pound cake is one of the easiest, most basic cakes to make. For tips and tricks, read How to Bake the Perfect Pound Cake. It gets the name from the original ingredients which consisted of a pound of flour, a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, and a pound of eggs. In the days when many people couldn’t read, this simple cake recipe was easy to remember.

As you can imagine, a cake that uses one pound of each of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs would make a rather large cake. It would serve multiple families. As the years passed, the cake ingredient ratios were decreased in order to make a smaller cake. However, the name ‘pound’ cake stuck.

Originally…

Eggs are the original leavening agent in pound cakes. Baking powder or baking soda wasn’t added. In addition to baking powder/soda, people have started adding flavors like orange, coconut, and chocolate to amp up the flavor. Nuts and chocolate chips also make an appearance, as does, liquors in some recipes.

Typically, dairy products are milk, buttermilk, cream cheese, sour cream, ricotta cheese, and more.

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Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed

History of the Pound Cake

1700s

A British creation, the pound cake that dates back to the early 1700s.

1796

The cookbook American Cookery: or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry and Vegetables, and the Best Modes of Making Puff-pastes, Pies, Tarts, Puddings, Custards, and Preserves, and all kinds of Cakes, from the Imperial Plumb to plain Cake by Amelia Simmons was the first cookbook authored by an American and published in the United States.

Note: The spelling below is how the actual recipe spelled the words. “F” was used instead of “S.”

POUND CAKE – One pound fugar, one pound butter, one pound flour, ten eggs, rofe water one gill, spices to our tafte; watch it well, it will bake in a flow oven in 15 minutes.

Another (called) POUND CAKE – Work three quarters of a pound butter, one pound of good fugar, till very white, whip ten whites to a foam, add the yolks and beat together, add one fpoon rofe water, two of brandy, and put the whole to one and a quarter of a pound flour, if yet to foft add flour and bake flowly.

1800s

Pound Cake recipes began to deviate in the mid-1800s from the original pound of each of the ingredients to make a lighter cake.

1881

The Pound Cake has traditionally been a popular dessert in the southern states. The first known written cookbook contained two pound cake recipes.

1900s

In some recipes, artificial leaveners, baking powder, or baking soda were added. Currently, pound cake recipes use different proportions of the same basic ingredients as the original formula to produce a lighter, fluffier, and tastier cake.

Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed. Method

The basic process for mixing a pound cake is almost always the same. Please note for each individual recipe I will give you very specific mixing instructions, especially when they deviate from the traditional indicated below in the text as well as in the video.

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. The color will actually get lighter in color to a very pale yellow.
Next, mix in the room temperature eggs one at a time until they disappear into the batter
The next step is to add the room temperature liquid, typically milk, butter, cream cheese, sour cream, etc., alternately with the flour until the mixture is smooth.
Pour into your baking pan and bake until cooked through.

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Old Fashioned Blue Ribbon Pound Cake video

Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed

Please click the photograph or the title under the photo for the recipe of the Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed.

: Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake

: Cold Oven Brown Sugar Whipping Cream Pound Cake

: Chocolate Pound Cake

: Old Fashioned Blue Ribbon Pound Cake

: From Scratch Pound Cake Trifle

: Twelve Yolk Pound Cake recipe

: Mile High Pound Cake

: Two Step Fresh Peach Pound Cake Recipe

: Peanut Butter Pound Cake

: Scratch-made Orange Zest Pound Cake with Orange Curd

: Vanilla Red Velvet Marbled Pound Cake Recipe

: Old Fashioned Buttermilk Orange Juice Pound Cake recipe

: Cake Mix Butterfinger Pound Cake with Chocolate Ganache

: Million Dollar Pound Cake

: Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake

: Sour Cream Pound Cake

: Ruby Red Grapefruit Pound Cake

: Homemade Sour Cream Cinnamon Roll Pound Cake

: Trisha Yearwood’s Lemon Pound Cake with Glaze

: Whipping Cream Pound Cake

: Nutella Strawberry Grilled Pound Cake Sandwiches

: McCall’s Best Pound Cake 1963 Version

: Scratch-made Key Lime Pound Cake Recipe with Key Lime Glaze

: Classic Ricotta Pound Cake

: Praline Glazed Pumpkin Pound Cake

: Peanut Butter Glazed Banana Pound Cake

: Greek Yogurt Strawberry Jam Pound Cake

: Fresh Blueberry Pound Cake Recipe

: Pecan Pie Pound Cake

: Strawberry Pound Cake

: Blueberry Swirl Pound Cake

: Chocolate Praline Bundt Cake is a decadent bundt cake

: Orange Bundt Cake

: Cream Filled Lemon Bundt Cake

: Traditional 12 Egg White Angel Food Cake

: Pumpkin Pound Cake Churros

: Pound Cake Churro Cubes

: Candy Cane Chocolate Chip pound cake

: Eggnog Pound Cake

: Cookie Butter Pound Cake

: Tiramisu with Pound Cake

: German Chocolate Pound Cake with Coconut Pecan Frosting

: Amaretto Pound Cake

: Coconut Cream Cheese Pound Cake

: Two Step PIneapple Pound Cake

: Southern Butter Pecan Pound Cake

: Totally Scratch-made Rum Pound Cake with Rum Glaze

: Famous Ritz Carlton Hotel Lemon Pound Cake recipe

: Oreo Buttermilk Pound Cake

: Melt in your Mouth Strawberry Buttermilk Pound Cake

: Award-winning Mascarpone Pound Cake

: Strawberry & Cream Pound Cake with Jello

: Holiday Greek Yogurt Cranberry Pound Cake recipe

: Scratch made Rum Pound Cake

: Sweet Potato Pound Cake

: Pineapple Upside Down Pound Cake

: Blueberry Swirl Pound Cake

: Roasted Carrot Cake Pound Cake with Pineapple Mascarpone Frosting

: Irish Cream Chocolate Pound Cake

: Best Triple Lemon Pound Cake

: Best Fudge Marble Pound Cake

: Grannys Orange Marmalade Pound Cake

: Homemade Melted Vanilla Ice Cream Pound Cake

: Mardi Gras King Cake Pound Cake

: Copycat Sara Lee Pound Cake

: Sheet Pan Pound Cake

: Orange Creamsicle Pound Cake

: Cinnamon Pecan Swirl Coffee Cake Pound Cake

: Amaretto Peach Upside Down Pound Cake

: Butter Beer Pound Cake

: Tiramisu Pound Cake

: Key Lime Coconut Marbled Pound Cake

: Citrus Pound Cake

: Fresh Strawberry Pound Cake

: Woodford Reserve Pound Cake

: Fig Preserve Pound Cake

: Five Flavor Pound Cake

: Sour Cream Dark Chocolate Pound Cake

: Hummingbird Pound Cake

: Old School Southern Butter Pound Cake

: Citrus Pound Cake

: Cherry Limeade pound cake

: Sheet Pan Pound Cake

: 7up Pound Cake

: Sweetened Condensed Milk Pound Cake

: Banana Pudding Pound Cake Recipe

: 7 Flavor Pound Cake with Macadamia Nut Liqueur

: Limoncello Pound Cake

: Sweetened Condensed Milk Pound Cake

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Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed

Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed – History

What is a ‘Pound Cake’?

Originally…

Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed

History of the Pound Cake

Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed. Method

Watch How!

Pound Cake Recipes Reviewed

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