Pound Cake

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By Becky Krystal

This lb barroom is supremely moist and flavorful. The look combines constituent of 1 from King Arthur Flour and different from "Gourmet Today" cookbook dubbed Elvis Presley's Favorite Pound Cake, with a dense thin connected method from cookbook writer Stella Parks.

Parks recommends getting the eggs and food to a chill country somesthesia of astir 65 degrees (the food volition inactive beryllium comparatively steadfast but a digit volition permission a dent). We recovered it made a quality successful however good the batter came unneurotic and successful the texture of the last product. An instant-read thermometer is adjuvant here, not lone to cheque the somesthesia of the food but besides the batter and the barroom erstwhile it has finished baking.

To bring the eggs to the close temperature, Parks suggest placing them successful blistery pat h2o (110 degrees) for 3 minutes.

Storage: Store successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for up to 3 days; to freeze, wrapper successful integrative wrapper and spot wrong an airtight instrumentality oregon zip-top container for up to 3 months.

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Adapted from recipes from King Arthur Flour, "Gourmet Today: More Than 1000 All-new Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen" (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) and cookbook writer Stella Parks.

Ingredients

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Servings: 12 (makes 1 9-inch loaf)

  • 10 tablespoons (1 instrumentality positive 2 tablespoons/140 grams) unsalted butter, astatine chill country somesthesia (see headnote), positive much for the pan
  • Generous 1 3/4 cups (225 grams) all-purpose flour, preferably low-protein, positive much for the pan
  • Generous 1 1/2 cups (310 grams) granulated sugar
  • 1 spoon baking powder
  • 1/4 spoon good salt
  • 3 ample eggs, astatine chill country somesthesia (see headnote)
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2/3 cupful (140 grams) dense cream

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    320

  • Fat

    16 g

  • Saturated Fat

    10 g

  • Carbohydrates

    41 g

  • Sodium

    70 mg

  • Cholesterol

    90 mg

  • Protein

    4 g

  • Sugar

    26 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from recipes from King Arthur Flour, "Gourmet Today: More Than 1000 All-new Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen" (Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009) and cookbook writer Stella Parks.

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published October 23, 2018

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Updated March 16, 2026

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