The Very Best Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• 1. In a standing mixer, beat the butter and sugar.
• 2. Add eggs one at a time.
• 3. Add the vanilla.
• 4. In a bowl, combine the salt, baking powder, and flour.
• 5. Add the flour mixture and milk, alternately.
• 6. Beat for 20 minutes. (Note: I have only beaten for another 5-10 minutes and it's fine.)
• 7. Place batter in a greased and floured tube pan.
• 8. Place in cold oven and set temperature to 350 degrees. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• 9. Remove cake from oven very carefully and place it carefully where it can cool. You want to prevent it from dropping. Enjoy this easy to make, moist and yummy pound cake!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter two 9-by-5-inch loaf pans; dust with flour, tapping out excess. In a bowl, whisk together flour and salt. (If making the lighter version, add baking powder at same time as salt.)
• With an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, about 8 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to medium; beat in vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each and scraping down sides of bowl. Reduce speed to low; add flour mixture in 2 batches (alternating with sour cream if making the lighter version), beating until just incorporated.
• Divide batter evenly between prepared pans. Tap pans on counter; smooth tops with an offset spatula. Bake until a cake tester inserted into center of each cake comes out clean, about 70-75 minutes. Transfer pans to a wire rack to cool 30 minutes. Turn out cakes onto rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• Cream flour and butter together until smooth. I do this part in my stand mixer.
• Beat eggs and sugar together until lemon colored and frothy, I do this part with my hand held mixer.
• Add egg and sugar mixture to flour and butter mixture and mix until smooth and creamy.
• Place batter into a greased and floured 10" tube cake pan. Tap the bottom of the pan on a counter top a couple of times to get rid of any air bubbles.
• Bake @ 300° for 1 ½ hours or until tests done with toothpick.