Butter Pound Cake Loaf Recipes

BUTTERY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 12-cup Bundt or 10-inch angel food cake (tube) pan.
• Combine sugar and butter in bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Continue beating, adding 1 egg at a time, until well mixed. Add sour cream, milk and vanilla. Continue beating, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Add flour and salt; beat at low speed just until moistened.
• Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake 55-65 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan. Cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, if desired. Top each serving with whipped cream, if desired.

BUTTER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 or 10 inch tube pan.
• With an electric mixer, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time and mix well.
• Introduce the flour, one cup at a time while adding cream a little at a time until all flour and cream is mixed in well.
• Add the vanilla and lemon flavoring and blend well. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 1-1/2 hours or until center springs back from small amount of pressure. Immediately turn out on cake rack to cool.

BUTTER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease and flour a 10-in. fluted tube pan., Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla and eggs, one at a time. Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt. Add to creamed mixture alternately with water, beating after each addition., Transfer to prepared pan., Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 50-55 minutes. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pan; cool completely on a wire rack., If desired, for garnish, place corn syrup in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave, uncovered, 10 seconds or until warm. Brush corn syrup lightly over rosemary. Sprinkle sugar to coat; place on waxed paper to dry. Reheat remaining corn syrup until warm; gently toss cranberries and blueberries in syrup. Toss in remaining sugar to coat. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set, about 1 hour., Just before serving, top cake with sugared rosemary and berries. If desired, dust with confectioners' sugar.

ULTIMATE BUTTER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a 9x5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper, leaving an overhang over 2 sides.
• Combine butter, white sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until fluffy. Beat in flour. Beat in eggs one at a time, scraping the bowl after each addition. Pour batter into a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes.
• Lift cake out of the loaf pan using the overhanging parchment paper. Place on a wire rack and cool completely before slicing, about 30 minutes.

BUTTER POUND CAKE LOAF

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees; place rack in center of oven.
• 2. Butter or spray with a non stick vegetable spray, a 9 x 5 x 3 inch loaf pan. Line bottom with parchment paper; butter or spray the paper.
• 3. Whisk together the eggs, milk, and vanilla extract in a medium sized bowl; set aside.
• 4. Place flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in the bowl of your electric mixer. Whisk together about 30 seconds on low speed or until blended.
• 5. Add the butter and half of the egg mixture. Mix on low until the dry ingredients are moistened. Increase the speed to medium; beat for one minute to aerate and develop the cake's structure. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Gradually add the remaining egg mixture, in 2 additions, beating about 30 seconds after each addition to incorporate the egg and strengthen the cake's structure.
• 6. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatula or the back of a spoon. Bake for about 45 to 55 minutes or until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If you find the cake browning too much as it bakes, cover with a piece of lightly buttered aluminum foil after about 30 minutes.
• 7. Remove cake from the oven, place on wire rack and cool for about 10 minutes. Remove cake from the pan and cool completely on a lightly buttered wire rack.

PLAIN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 2 (8 1/2 by 4 1/2 by 2 1/2-inch) loaf pans. Line the bottoms with parchment paper.
• Cream the butter and granulated sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment for about 5 minutes, or until light and fluffy. With the mixer on medium speed, beat in the eggs, 1 at a time.
• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, combine the buttermilk and vanilla. Add the flour and buttermilk mixtures alternately to the batter, beginning and ending with the flour. Divide the batter evenly between the pans, smooth the tops, and bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until a cake tester comes out clean.
• When the cakes are done, let them cool for 10 minutes. Take them out of the pans, place them on a baking rack and allow them to cool completely. Wrap well, and store in the refrigerator.

OLD FASHION BUTTER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Grease and flour a 9x5 loaf pan.
• *IMPORTANT - ALLOW ALL INGREDIENTS TO REACH ROOM TEMPERATURE*.
• With mixer on low speed, cream the butter until soft; slowly add sugar while mixer is running.
• Once all the sugar has been added, beat until the mixture is fluffy.
• Slowly add eggs, one at a time, mixing each egg well into the creamed mixture.
• Add the flour and salt, mix until smooth.
• Add vanilla extract and milk; mix until smooth.
• Pour into the loaf pan.
• Bake for 75 to 90 minutes or until golden brown.

KENTUCKY BLUE RIBBON ALL-BUTTER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a tube pan with some butter and dust lightly with flour.
• Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
• Combine sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk. Mix in vanilla extract. Pour batter into the prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack and let cool completely, about 30 minutes.