A great use of leftover egg yolks, Twelve Yolk Pound Cake, is golden and tender. A great basic cake that’s not overly sweet. Serve this with a good vanilla ice cream and rich caramel sauce.
Twelve Yolk Pound Cake is versatile and delicious.
When a reader asked me if I had a Twelve Yolk Pound Cake recipe, I became intrigued. She sad the twelve yolks made a pound cake and the twelve egg whites, in turn, are used for an Angel Food Cake.
I had never heard of this but got busy searching through old cookbooks to see what I could find. The recipe below is an adapted version of a twelve yolk cake that I found. As well, be sure to read my Angel Food Cake.
If you been following and/or making my pound cakes in my Pound Cake Reviews Series, this is not what I truly call a ‘pound cake’. It is more airy and fluffy than a traditional dense, small crumb pound cake. In fact, I would classify this as a ‘sponge cake’ in texture.
Twelve Yolk Pound Cake is soft, rich with a buttery-like texture from all the yolks. Furthermore, because of the number of golden egg yolks, this cake has a lovely golden color.
You may also like these cakes
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- Kentucky Butter Sauce Pound Cake
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- Apple Fritter Cake
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- Ruby Red Grapefruit Pound Cake
Twelve Yolk Pound Cake
- Coincidently, you can use your favorite flavoring in this cake. Good basic flavorings to try are vanilla, lemon, coconut, or almond.
- This cake is mixed together differently than most pound cakes. Therefore, you may want to read through the directions entirely before beginning the recipe.
- Twelve yolks make about one liquid cup measure. I used large eggs. If you have medium or small eggs, you may want to measure them in a cup to assure you have the correct amount.
- You’ll want all the ingredients to be room temperature. (Except the water in this recipe.)
- As well, you’ll need to sift the flour before measuring. For baking, it’s very important to correctly measure all the ingredients. Flour is easily measured incorrectly. Please read this post on How to correctly Measure Flour.
- You can serve this with ice cream and caramel sauce, chocolate sauce, or blueberry sauce.
Tools for Baking
- A larger bundt
- Or this tube pan
- Favorite spatulas
- For all my baking essentials, visit my Amazon Store.
Twelve Yolk Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 12 large egg yolks room temp
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 and ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 cup cold water
Instructions
- Prepare a 10-inch (12 cup) tube pan or 12 cup bundt pan with non-stick spray.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together.
- In a mixing bowl, beat egg yolks until very fluffy and thick.
- Gradually beat in sugar and beat 2 minutes on high speed, stopping to scrape the bowl.
- Reduce speed to low and add vanilla, lemon, and cold water.
- Gradually, but quickly add sifted flour mixture while beating on low, scrape bowl.
- Beat only long enough to blend, about 2 minutes.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake 50 to 60 minutes or until golden brown or when pick inserted in thickest portion of the cake comes out clean or with dry crumbs.
- Store in an airtight container 4 days or on countertop or 1 week in the refrigerator.
Notes
Nutrition
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Denise says
Can you freeze this cake?
Paula says
Yes, to freeze: wrap the cake tightly with aluminum foil or plastic freezer wrap, or place in a heavy-duty freezer bag for up to 3 months
AR says
Can you put milk in this recipe instead of water
Paula says
yes
Angie says
Is there butter in this recipe
Paula says
no
Jami says
How much butter does this recipe call for? 4 sticks?
Paula says
no butter
Della Hall says
Can you use almond or coconut flour in place of the all purpose flour?
Paula says
I have never had good luck baking with coconut or almond flour.
Angelica Hawkins says
Hi there- 2 issues for me, please. First, I made the 12 yolk pound cake, looks awesome but the texture is not that of a pound cake. It’s moist but much more dense, almost like bread. Flavor is good also so, just the texture.
Also, where can I find d the nutritional values for any of your recipes?
Paula says
Yes, I did talk about the texture in the post. I will update the nutritional values.
Niamh O’Reilly says
Can I bake this in a loaf pan with the same results? Thanks 😊
Paula says
You will need to use two loaf pans
Sam says
Wow! This is the most awesome recipe. I did just what it said… all ingredients at room temperature and the ice water just until the ice was melted. Even the time in the oven was perfect! It came out just like the picture! Perfect texture, perfect crumb! Not too moist and not too dry. Amazing! What a great way to use extra egg yolks. I did add a few more egg yolks to make 1 cup of them. My grandson loves it!
Christine S says
What is the nutritional values of this? Fat, carbohydrates? Thank You.
Paula says
https://www.verywellfit.com/recipe-nutrition-analyzer-4157076
Rainning says
How do i substitute with lemon zest and juice?
Paula says
Omit the extracts and add the zest and juice of 1 lemon