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Simple butter cake
Quick, light butter cake

Classic Butter Pound Cake

Author: Flavelo
Recipes Cakes and Desserts
Simple means pure. Butter, sugar, eggs. Modern version with milk and baking powder.
🕒 Prep Time 25 mins
🍳 Cook Time 35 mins
⌛ Total Time 2 hrs
🍽️ Servings 8 servings
🔥 Calories 395 kcal
🌍 Cuisine English / Pound Cake Style

Ingredients

Equipment Needed

  • Mixer
  • Cake pan (8-inch)
  • Sifter

Allergen Information

⚠️ Wheat
⚠️ Egg
⚠️ Milk

Instructions

1 ✓

Preheat 350°F. Grease/flour pan.

Tip: Prep is key.
2 ✓

Cream butter and sugar until very fluffy (5-8 mins).

Tip: Most important step: mechanical leavening.
3 ✓

Add eggs one by one.

Tip: Maintain emulsion.
4 ✓

Mix dry ingredients. Alternate adding dry and milk/vanilla.

Tip: Overmixing = tough cake.
5 ✓

Bake 30-35 mins. Golden brown.

Tip: Butter content yields gold color.
6 ✓

Cool. Dust with sugar.

Tip: Best lukewarm.

Recipe FAQ

Dense/greasy.
Ingredients weren't room temp. Emulsion failed.
Domed center.
Oven too hot.

Ingredients

  • 1 2/3 cups All-Purpose Flour
  • 2/3 cup Unsalted Butter (softened)
  • 3/4 cup Granulated Sugar
  • 3 large Eggs (room temp)
  • 1 packet Baking Powder
  • 1/2 cup Milk
  • 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
  • 1/4 cup Powdered Sugar (dusting)
  • 1 pinch Salt