Best Grammas Pound Cake Recipes

GRANDMA'S TRADITIONAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Start with a cold oven. Do not preheat!
• Cream together butter, margarine, shortening and sugar in a large mixing bowl until creamy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
• Mix together flour and baking powder; add to batter alternately with milk and vanilla.
• Pour into a well greased and floured Bundt pan. Be sure to grease all the way to the top of the pan and in center to ensure it doesn't stick coming out of the pan.
• Put into a cold oven and set at 325 degrees F.
• Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Check for doneness; bake up to 15 additional minutes if needed.
• Cool in pan for 15 minutes before inverting pan.

GRANDMA'S SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9- or 10-inch fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®.
• Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy and noticeably lighter in color. Add room-temperature eggs 1 at a time, allowing each egg to blend into the butter mixture before adding the next. Beat in vanilla with the last egg.
• Mix together flour, baking soda, salt, and mace in a bowl. Add flour mixture to the butter-egg mixture alternately with sour cream, mixing until just incorporated. Transfer batter to the prepared pan and spread to smooth top.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool for at least 10 minutes before inverting pan onto a cooling rack, and tapping out the cake. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving.

GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Beat butter with an electric mixer until soft and creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl as you go, about 2 minutes. Gradually add in sugar on medium speed. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition until the yellow disappears from the previous one.
• Combine flour and baking soda in a bowl. Add sour cream to the creamed butter mixture alternately with the flour, ending with sour cream. Beat in vanilla and almond extract just until combined. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 30 minutes. Dust with powdered sugar.

GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Mix flour and baking powder; set aside. Beat cream cheese, butter, sugar and vanilla in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each until blended. Gradually beat in flour mixture on low speed until blended.
• Pour into 12-cup fluted tube or 10-inch tube pan sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake 1 hour or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 min. Loosen cake from sides of pan with knife. Invert cake onto wire rack; gently remove pan. Cool cake completely.

GRANDMOTHER'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven at 300 degrees.
• Butter and flour 1 large or 2 small loaf pans.
• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs one at a time.
• When creamy fold in the flour and salt.
• Spoon in pan/pans.
• Bake for 1 1/2 hours.

GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Separate eggs.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt, and mace.
• Beat egg yolks, then add sugar and beat until lemon-colored, add lemon extract.
• In a large bowl, cream butter.
• Add dry ingredients, cream well, add egg and sugar mixture and beat well, add egg whites and blend well.
• Bake 1 hour or slightly longer at 325 degrees until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• If edges are dark brown you've baked it too long.