Think of pound cake as the original no-recipe recipe. It takes its name from the weight of its four crucial ingredients—flour, sugar, butter, and eggs. Traditionally, the cake was made from one pound ...

Pound Cake I’ve always called this a pound cake. According to my mother’s recipe notes, though, it was my Aunt Mildred’s “plain cake.” Maybe she used that name because she never glazed or frosted ...

Although simple, this formula yields a moist, buttery pound cake, with a golden brown crust. It bakes low and slow, at 300°F for about 1 hour and 40 minutes, until perfectly tender but not dry.

Have you ever wondered what sets pound cake apart from any other? The answer actually lies within the name itself. The original recipe was made using one pound of each of the primary ingredients — ...

The secret here is that there is no secret: It’s the classic “pound” cake with equal weights of butter, sugar, eggs and flour. Back in the day of easy grocery runs and well-stocked kitchens, I tested ...

Ina Garten has built a food empire through her Barefoot Contessa brand. It started out as a small, East Hampton specialty foods store, but through the years, Garten turned it into a series of 12 ...

Classic old fashioned cake recipes are all about simple ingredients and dependable methods. These are the cakes many of us ...

No matter how full our recipe box or files seems to be, there is usually room to squeeze in one more pound cake recipe. The pound cake is one of the most versatile cakes because it is usually made ...

Drummond wrote about her lemon-lime pound cake in a blog post on The Pioneer Woman website. “The same ol’ 7-Up pound cake we all grew up with, but amped up with lemon and lime zest and a tangy/sweet ...