Whipping Cream Pound Cake Recipe
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Whipping Cream Pound Cake Recipe is crusty on the outside and velvety smooth on the inside.
Both dense and moist, this Whipping Cream Pound Cake Recipe is a tried and true cake recipe that will become your family favorite!
Whipping Cream Pound Cake Recipe
I have many Pound Cake recipes in my repertoire. I have Whipping Cream Pound Cake Recipe, Cream Cheese Pound Cake, Sour Cream Pound Cake, Greek Yogurt Pound Cake, Chocolate Pound Cake, Blue Ribbon Pound Cake and the list goes on and on. As I’ve stated before, desserts, in particular, Pound Cake are my most favorite thing to make. I’ve been wanting to do a series for you and it finally hit me, “Why not do the one thing that I love the most? Make all the Pound Cake recipes and share them with you!” That’s precisely what I’m going to do over the next few weeks.
Also known as Elvis Presley Pound Cake
I cut this Whipping Cream Pound Cake recipe out of our local newspaper years and years ago. Then about 10 years ago, I also found it in a local cookbook with slight variations. Then I’ve made my own tweaks to the recipe and that’s what you’ll find below.
In the cookbook, they tell a story of how it was Elvis Presley’s favorite pound cake. Now, I live in the town in which Elvis was born. This very well could be true. Or, it could be false. Or, half-true. I’ve found that stories get bigger and more exaggerated the more they’re told so take that with a grain of salt.
My Favorite Pound Cake
What I do know, this is my personal favorite pound cake recipe. It’s sweet without being overly sweet. It pairs well with fresh or grilled fruit. This cake is good with ice cream, fruit sauce, and whipped cream. You may also enjoy it with caramel sauce. And, certainly, it’s good all by itself (my favorite way to eat this Whipping Cream Pound Cake recipe.) Coincidentally, my second favorite pound cake recipe is the Amaretto Pound Cake that I shared earlier with you on callmepmc.com
INGREDIENTS
The amounts are listed below in the recipe card.
- Sugar
- Butter
- Eggs
- Flour
- Whipping Cream
- Vanilla extract
You may also like my Old Fashioned Blue Ribbon Pound Cake in the video below
Whipping Cream Pound Cake Recipe Tips
- This pound cake is very dense and moist. The batter is thick and it takes a long time to bake, 1 hour and 15 minutes. It’s is worth the wait. The pound cake is ‘crusty’ on the outside and has a soft, tender texture and small crumb inside. You’ll be tempted to take the cake out at 1 hour because the outside is golden brown. Do not. Test it carefully (without moving the cake too much) with a small, long wooden skewer. The cake is done with no crumbs or dry crumbs are on the skewer.
- First things first, when it comes to measuring flour, a cup is not always a cup. Please read this post on how to correctly measure flour.
- I use this tube pan. You can also use this bundt pan.
- It takes a little patience to make. You’ll need to cream the
butter and sugar until it’s light and fluffy. - Also, add the eggs one at a time, sometimes I want to dump them all in at once, but resist the urge.
- Finally, allow the cake to cool at least 20 minutes in the pan before inverting it onto a platter.
- Complete detailed instructions are below in the recipe box.
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Whipping Cream Pound Cake Recipe
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Save To Your Recipe BoxIngredients
- 3 cups sugar
- 1 cup real butter room temperature (no substitution), salted or unsalted, recommended
- 6 large eggs at room temperature
- 3 cups all-purpose flour sifted (recommended brand)
- 1 cup whipping cream NOT WHIPPED (also known as heavy cream)
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract I use this
Instructions
- *Recipe is correct as written, there is no baking soda or baking powder in it. This cake is leavened, traditionally, with eggs.
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer, beat on medium butter until smooth. Add sugar and mix until smooth about 2 to 3 minutes on medium speed.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Add flour and heavy cream alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour.
- Add vanilla and mix on low to medium until well combined.
- Pour batter into a prepared 10-inch tube or bundt pan.
- Bake for 1 hour 15-25 minutes at 325 degrees F. Test for doneness with a wooden pick The cake will be done with no crumbs or dry crumbs remain on the pick.
- Cool in the pan for 20 to 25 minutes before inverting onto a serving tray to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container on the countertop 3 to 4 days.
After 1 hr and 25 mins @325 degrees, my cake was not done. I had to increase oven temp to 350 degrees and bake another 20 mins. I checked it by sticking a wood skewer in cake, it came out clean. However, after it cooled and I cut it, it still wasn’t quite done. Did I do something wrong? It was still very delicious! Thank you!
I would recommend you calibrate you oven>> https://www.callmepmc.com/how-to-calibrate-your-oven/
For it to be that much off, I think it’s probably reading incorrectly.
A friend sent me this Whipping Cream Pound Cake several weeks ago. It was still warm! My family dove in and loved it!! Since then, I have made it two times and have the third in the oven! I do a lot of sharing!!l This is my go to site for all cakes!! Thanks, Paula!
Extra time exercising is in the works! lol
I’m so happy you like them! So true about exercising!!
Paula , I figured it out! My flour was self rising. I did not realize that. I will try again with all purpose. Thank you, it’s ugly but tastes good!
It happens to the best of us 😉 I’ve done the same in the past!
Hi..i tried this recipe.Cake is nice but it did not stick together.and it fininshed in 30 min..and i used self rising flour..can u please let me know what is wrong?
You can’t sub self-rising flour in a pound cake recipe, you need to use all-purpose as stated in the recipe. Also, I recommend you calibrate your oven, a dense cake like a pound cake needs to bake at a low temp for a long time. https://www.callmepmc.com/how-to-calibrate-your-oven/ If you used the ingredients as listed it should stick together. Did you sub anything else or omit eggs?
I feel like I followed the directions precisely, and when I went to check for doneness, it looks like it has exploded in my oven. What did I do wrong?
Have you ever added chocolate chips to this recipe? If so, what amount would be good?
I haven’t this particular pound cake but I did make this one with chocolate and peppermint chips https://www.callmepmc.com/crusty-candy-cane-chocolate-chip-pound-cake/
I would add 1 and 1/2 cups chocolate chips to this whipping cream pc recipe
Have you ever added chocolate chips to this recipe?
This cake was wonderful.
I want to make the Whipping Cream Pound Cake, but have one question. The recipe says to add all purpose flour. I don’t see any baking powder listed. Don’t need it? I thought you had to have it for cake to rise??
I await a speedy reply so I can get baking!
Thanks.
The eggs are the leavening agent and classically how pound cakes were made. It doesn’t need baking powder or baking soda.
Can you make this in two bread pans?
Yes
I cook mine in two 9 inch bread pans. I use a scale to divide batter evenly. I bake the pans at 325 degrees for 70 minutes. 75 minutes at the most.
You should not pre-heat the oven.
I tested both ways and there’s no difference in cake cold oven vs preheated. https://www.callmepmc.com/cold-oven-brown-sugar-whipping-cream-pound-cake/
My granddaughter and I made the whipping cream pound cake together. It turned out great except for one thing. The entire family thought that it was too sweet. Could I safely decrease the sugar (or decease the sugar and increase the flour) and still have the great moist texture and crunchy top? I was thinking, maybe reduce the sugar by 1/2 cup and increase the flour by 1/2 cup.
I have been baking this cake for many years. If you like crunch to the top of your cake, add 1/2 cups of solid crisco, when you add the butter. I mix butter and crisco together, then fellow the recipe, That is only thing I do different. All 5 of my girls have made this cake they get rave reviews also. Enjoy
Do you add 1/2 c of crisco plus the regular amount of butter
Can. you add blueberries to this recipe? If yes, how much should I add?
I have this Blueberry Pound Cake https://www.callmepmc.com/fresh-blueberry-pound-cake-recipe/
Best pound cake recipe ever. Thank you Paula. I halved the recipe and put the cake mix in a spring form tin with a ramekin in the middle. It took 85 minutes in my oven. Crusty on the outside. Light and fluffy in a still-moist and dense way. I cannot describe the satisfaction! I am so glad I followed your instructions all the way.
I’d love to add a glaze. What would you recommend?
You could do a simple glaze with whipping cream, powdered sugar, and vanilla.
Or this lemon glaze https://www.callmepmc.com/easiest-lemon-dessert-sauce/ I put it on this pound cake and it’s divine. https://www.callmepmc.com/old-fashioned-blue-ribbon-pound-cake/
I did brown sugar in this recipe (it’s same as Whipping Cream P C except I used brown sugar.) I love caramel and ice cream over warm pound cake. https://www.callmepmc.com/cold-oven-brown-sugar-whipping-cream-pound-cake/