pound cake recipe

A simple but reliable pound cake recipe. This version of pound cake begins with a cold oven.

Pound Cake

Ingredients
  • 8 oz. butter, soft
  • 1 teaspoon fresh nutmeg, grated
  • Pinch of salt
  • 1 2/3 cups sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 2 cups cake flour, sifted
Procedure
  1. Grease and flour a 9" tube cake pan.
  2. Put softened butter in bowl of mixer. Add in nutmeg and pinch of salt, and mix about 4 minutes. Add in the sugar in a stream and mix until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add in one at a time 4 eggs, then add in the flour all at once. Mix about 2 minutes. Stop machine and scrape bottom. Add in the the last egg, and mix in a few seconds to incorporate the last egg.
  3. Place in a cold oven and set temperature to 300°F. Bake about two hours, checking after about 75 minutes.
Notes

 

Content by Renee Shelton. Recipe adapted from Claiborne, Craig. The New York Times Cook Book: Revised Edition. New York: Harper, 1990. This recipe was first published on PastrySampler.com on January 10, 2007. It was updated on October 13, 2020.

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