Pound Cake Recipe
Making a delicious cake from scratch is simple. This pound cake recipe will show how to turn common pantry staples into a classic homemade cake.
Ingredients
- 2 cups of unsalted butter at room temperature
- 8 eggs at room temperature
- 2 cups of whole fat milk at room temperature
- 5 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
- 4 cups of sugar
- 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
Instructions
- Before you begin, make sure your butter, milk and eggs are room temperature.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Beat the butter, sugar, vanilla for about 5 minutes with the paddle attachment on medium high speed.
- Break all the eggs into a bowl and set aside.
- Measure the flour in a bowl and add baking powder and salt. Whisk and sift at least twice and set it aside.
- Add the eggs 2 at a time on low speed and scrape the bowl at least once during this process.
- Mix the eggs just until incorporated. Be careful not to over mix.
- Once the eggs are added scrape the bowl and start adding the flour mixture and milk a little at a time by alternating. Begin and end with the flour mixture.
- Scrape the bowl and paddle one more time and mix until you don’t see flour.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about an hour.