Pound Cake Recipe

Pound cakes brings me back sweet memories of home. This cake is called the pound cake because the traditional recipe contains one pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one pound of eggs, and one pound of flour. It is usually baked in a loaf pan or a Bundt mold

. I made today's recipe with a different proportion and also used sour cream. While I served this pound cake dusted with powdered sugar, you can also coat with an icing. Toast a slice of pound cake or make a trifle.And the real treat is when you make pound cake french toast(wink wink:)

Click here for my Grilled Pound Cake recipe and Pound cake French Toast Recipe

I love pound cakes more than any other cake. If you give me pound cakes for every meal 365 days, YES, I will still survive. Couple of days back I made this cake and this is the recipe.

Ingredients

Butter 200 g (1 cup)

Sugar 250g ( 1 and 1/4 cup)

Eggs 5

Plain Flour 300g (3 cups)

Baking Soda 1/2 tsp 

Salt 1/2 tsp

Sour Cream 1 cup

Vanilla essence 2 tsp

Foster Clark(Mandarin Flavor) or Tang 2 tsp(optional)

Method

Preheat the oven to 190 degree Celsius

Butter the pan. If you are not using a non stick pan line the pan with parchment paper

Mix sour cream with Foster Clark powder in a bowl. Keep aside

 In a different bowl, mix flour, salt and baking soda. Keep aside.

Cream the butter. Add sugar and beat till light and fluffy. This will take about 7 minutes.

 Add the eggs one by one beating well after each addition. Add vanilla essence. 

Add 1/3rd of the flour mixture. Incorporate this into the cake batter on low speed and add 1/2 cup of the sour cream. After mixing well, add the half of the reamaining flour, mix well and add the rest of the sour cream. Add the last portion of the flour till incorporated. 

Pour the batter into the pan. Bake this for 45 mins on 190 degree Celsius.

After 45 minutes insert a tooth pick into d cake. If the tooth pick comes out clean, that means you cake is DONE. otherwise bake the cake for some more time.

Invert the cake onto a greased wire rack. The cake can be served plain with powdered sugar sprinkled on top.

I will be making my mothers recipe soon which is the ultimate pound cake!

Recipe adapted from tasteofhome.com

Happy Cooking!