Old Fashioned Pound Cake

Old Fashioned Pound Cake

from farmettekitchen.com
Desserts
75 min
371 kcal / serving

This Old Fashioned Pound Cake recipe is one my mother made often throughout my childhood.  Dense and buttery, this traditional pound cake is the perfect blank canvas for a fruit glaze or whipped topping.

Ingredients

  • 1 cupunsalted butter, softened, (2 sticks)
  • 2 cupsall-purpose flour
  • 2 cupsgranulated sugar
  • 6 largeeggs (room temperature)

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

  2. 2

    Grease and flour a tube pan.

  3. 3

    Cream the butter and sugar. The mixture should be light in color, like a pale yellow.

  4. 4

    Add the eggs one at a time. Continue to mix until the egg disappears completely into the mixture.

  5. 5

    Slowly incorporate the flour into the mixture one 1/2 cup at a time.

  6. 6

    Bake for 60 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

  7. 7

    Allow to cool in the pan 10-15 minutes. Remove from pan to a wire rack and let cool completely.