Best Southern Pound Cake Recipes

SOUTHERN LIVING'S CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Use an electric mixer to mix both butter and cream cheese until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar and beat for 5 minutes, then add eggs one at a time, allowing each to incorporate before adding more. Stir in vanilla.
• Sift flour and salt and add gradually to the mixer, beating until well blended.
• Pour batter into a well greased and floured bundt pan or tube cake pan.
• Place 2 cups water in an ovenproof container on the rack in the oven next to the cake.
• Bake cake at 300 for an hour and 45 minutes, or until a toothpick can be removed cleanly.
• Place pan on a wire rack and cool for 15 minutes, then remove the cake from the pan and complete cooling on the wire rack.

SOUTHERN SWEET POTATO POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Generously butter a 10-cup tube or bundt pan.
• In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt.
• Set aside.
• In a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the butter until light and fluffy.
• Add the sugar gradually, about 1/2 cup at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add the sweet potatoes and mix until thoroughly combined.
• Reduce the speed to low or switch to a wooden spoon and gradually add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture in 3 additions, beating well after each addition.
• The batter should be stiff.
• Add the vanilla, pecans and, if desired, the coconut.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake until the cake tests done when a wire cake tester is inserted in the middle and comes out clean, 50 to 65 minutes.
• Transfer the pan to a wire rack to cool for 15 minutes.
• Invert the cake onto a plate and remove.
• Note: To cook sweet potatoes, peel and quarter potatoes, add to boiling water and simmer, uncovered, until tender, about 20 minutes, depending on size- Drain and mash.

NANA'S SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at a time, beat well after each addition.
• Add flour, salt and vanilla.
• Bake in tube pan at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 20 minutes.

SMOOTHEST SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer (not a hand held one) about 2 minutes or until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed 5 to 7 minutes. Combine cake flour and baking soda, and add to butter mixture 1 cup at a time. (Batter will be extremely thick).
• Separate eggs; add yolks to batter, and mix well. Stir in sour cream and vanilla. Beat egg whites until stiff, and fold into batter.
• Spoon into a greased and floured 12-cup Bundt or 10-inch tube pan. Bake at 300F for 2 hours or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. (You may also spoon batter into two 9- x 5- x 3-inch loaf pans; bake at 300F for 1 1/2 hours or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean). Cool in pan on wire rack 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from pan; cool completely on wire rack.
• NOTE: Standard Mixing Method: If you are using a handheld mixer or prefer a conventional pound cake method, here's the procedure we suggest.
• Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer about 2 minutes or until creamy. Gradually add 3 cups sugar, beating at medium speed 5 to 7 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until yellow disappears.
• Combine cake flour and baking soda; add to butter mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix at lowest speed just until mixture is blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla. Bake as directed.

SOUTHERN SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Generously grease and flour a 10-inch bundt or tube pan.
• Cream butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl at medium speed. Blend until mixture is light and fluffy and sugar is no longer granulated. (About ten minutes).
• Add vanilla & almond extracts, scraping sides of bowl so it is thoroughly incorporated.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each egg is added.
• Add sour cream all at once and blend thoroughly.
• Sift flour, baking soda and salt into small bowl (A wire whisk works perfectly to sift/mix dry ingredients). Slowly add flour mixture and continue beating until mixture is smooth and well blended. (Add by approximately three parts-roughly 1-cup additions).
• Pour batter into the well-greased and floured bundt or tube pan.
• Bake for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5 minutes and then invert pan onto wire rack and cool completely.

BEST SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Combine butter, Crisco, sugar, flour and salt in mixing bowl and beat well with electric mixer.
• Add milk gradually.
• Add eggs, 2 at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Add baking powder and vanilla and mix well.
• Pour batter in 10" tube pan, bottom of which has been lined with waxed paper and greased.
• Bake 1 hour or until cake tests done.

SOUTHERN PECAN SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt or tube pan. Sprinkle pecans on bottom of pan; set aside. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda into a medium bowl; set aside. In a large bowl, cream butter and white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Add flour mixture alternately with sour cream. Pour batter over pecans in prepared pan.
• 2. Bake in the preheated oven for 75 to 90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 20 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely. To prepare the glaze: In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, orange juice and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Drizzle over cake while still warm.

BEST EVER FIVE FLAVORED SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and Crisco.
• Add 3 cups sugar and cream again (10 minutes - minimum). Beat eggs until lemon color - add to mixture.
• Sift together: flour, baking powder and salt.
• Alternate milk and 1 tsp all flavorings w/sifted dry ingredients. Pour into a greased and floured 10" tube pan.
• Bake 325° for 1 ½ hours or until cake tests done or depending on oven.
• Dissolve glaze ingredients over low heat in a saucepan. Spoon glaze over cake in pan while hot. Let cool in pan. Keep well and it is better after 1st day.
• NOTE: Put out the butter, Crisco and eggs the night before. The key is that everything is room temperature and you beat the butter, sugar and eggs at least the 10 minutes. After that you only beat enough to mix the dry ingredients.

COFFEE CAKE POUND CAKE - SOUTHERN LIVING

Steps:

• 1. Prepare Pecan Streusel: Combine 1st 3 ingredients in a bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or fork until mixture resembles small peas. Stir in 3/4 cup pecans - set aside
• 2. Prepare Pound Cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. ** Bake 1 cup of pecans in a single layer in a shallow pan 5 - 7 minutes or until lightly toasted and fragrant, stirring half-way through . Remove and reduce oven temp to 325. Cool pecans 20 minutes (these will be combined in step 5 with sugar and additional cinnamon)
• 3. Beat butter at med speed with heavy duty electric stand mixture until creamy. Gradually add granulated sugar beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time until just blended after each addition
• 4. Stir together flour and baking soda. Add to mixture alternately with sour cream beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until just blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla
• 5. Pour half of batter into a greased and floured 10 inch (12 cup) tube pan *** Combine TOASTED pecans, brown sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle over batter. Spoon remaining batter over pecan mixture and sprinkle with pecan streusel
• 6. Bake 325 for 1 hour and 20 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes or until a long wooden pick instered in the enter comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack 10-15 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack and cool completely (at least an hour)
• 7. *** I used a Bundt pan - watch closely ** I did not do this - I used part of the streusel

SOUTHERN-STYLE CHOCOLATE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 2 (8 inch) loaf pans. Sift together the flour, cocoa and baking powder. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, mixing just until incorporated. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 75 to 90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

KEY LIME POUND CAKE FROM SOUTHERN LIVING

Steps:

• Beat butter and shortening at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add sugar, add eggs one at a time.
• Stir flour, baking powder, and salt. add to butter mixture alternately beginning and ending with flour Stir in vanilla lime zest and juice
• Pour in 12 cup bundt pan
• Bake 1 hour 10 minutes and check with wooden stick if done.
• Mix powdered sugar key lime juice and vanilla and pour over hot cake You can punch holes in the cake

SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Grease and flour a tube pan.
• Cream sugar and Crisco well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each egg.
• Alternately add flour, milk and vanilla, beating after each addition.
• Pour into greased and floured tube pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in pan, then invert onto cooling rack.

SOUTHERN PECAN PRALINE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Directions for cake mix
• Cream butter and sugar in a mixer.
• Add 1 egg at a time.
• Add flour and cream, alternating between the two.
• Add baking powder.
• Add salt.
• Add vanilla.
• Pour in greased and floured bundt pan
• Put in cold oven, middle rack.
• Turn oven to 350 and bake for 1 hour and remove. Do NOT let it cool completely in the pan! I made that mistake once! Wouldn't come out. LOL
• Directions for Praline Sauce
• In a heavy saucepan, stir the brown sugar, butter, and half and half over moderate heat for 5 minutes or until the mixture comes to a full boil. Boil for 3 minutes, then remove from the heat and stir in the confectioners sugar, pecans, and vanilla. Immediately drizzle over pound cake. Makes 2 cups.

EM'S BEST SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Cut butter into small pieces and cream with the sugar. Add the ten eggs, beaten slightly, a little at a time. Add the vanilla extract. (Substitute vanilla with almond, if you like.)
• 2. Add the salt to the flour. using a sturdy mixer, add the cake flour to the wet mixture. Prepare your separating tube pan with Crisco/flour or baking spray which is cleaner. (Be liberal in preparing the pan.)Lump the thick batter evenly into the pan.
• 3. Use real butter; use pure vanilla extract. I keep these ingredients on hand all the time. These are key to the flavor of the cake!
• 4. Place the pan in the center of the oven. Cook at 325 F. for approx. 1 1/2 hours. Do not overcook, or the cake will be dry.
• 5. **After drizzling the glaze on the hot cake, use a thin metal spatula and separate the cake gently around the circumference, allowing the glaze the flow down the outside of the cake. Let it sit a few minutes. **Don't stick holes into the cake for the glaze; the cake won't look 'pretty' when you slice it.
• 6. To remove the tube with the heavy cake, I use a large wooden spoon through the tube. Carefully loosen the bottom of the cake and turn the cake over on your hand. Avoid up-ending the cake on a plate, as the top need to look "pretty" as well. Have a plate or Tupperware cake box ready for the bottom of the cake to rest on.

SOUTHERN SWEET POTATO POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cake: Cream (beat until creamy) butter and sugar; add sweet potatoes and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each. Combine dry ingredients and stir into creamed mixture; add vanilla, nuts.
• Pour mixture into greased 10-inch tube pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour 15 minutes or until cake tests done. Spread with icing while warm.
• Icing: Combine all ingredients, slowly adding enough orange juice to make spreading consistency.

SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with butter.
• Add the brown sugar, granulated sugar and butter to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and stir on medium speed until creamed and fully combined. Add the eggs, one at a time, until completely combined. Add the vanilla extract and sour cream and stir until combined.
• Combine the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl with a whisk. Slowly add the dry mixture to the wet mixture in the stand mixer until just combined. Pour this mixture into the prepared loaf pan. Bake until golden brown and cooked through, about 1 hour. Remove from the oven and allow to cool to room temperature.
• For the mixed berry compote: Meanwhile, add the blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, granulated sugar, butter and vanilla extract to a medium saucepan and turn the heat on to medium-high. Cook until thickened and syrupy, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from the heat and keep warm or let cool to room temperature until ready to serve.
• Remove the pound cake from the loaf pan. Cut slices just under 1 inch thick and shingle the slices on a large platter. Top with the compote and whipped cream and dust with powdered sugar. Garnish with the mint and serve.

GRANDMA'S SOUTHERN POUND CAKE...CIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 dF. Prepare pan by generously spraying with Bakers Joy non stick spray.
• In a medium bowl combine the dry ingredients and mix on low speed for 30 seconds to blend.
• In a large bowl combine the butter and sugar. Beat in each egg one at a time until smooth.
• Add the lemon and vanilla.
• Gradually add the dry ingredients to the egg-sugar, lemon and vanilla mixture.
• Pour into prepared fluted tube (bundt) pan, loaf pan or tube pan.
• Bake at 350 dF for one hour (being sure you do not open oven door to look at cake until one hour has gone by).
• Test cake with a toothpick in center for doneness (toothpick should come out clean).
• When cake is done..cool on wire rack for a bit then turn out onto cake plate.
• While cake is cooling heat Raspberry Jam and pour over cake after it's removed from pan an on the cake plate. Then decorate with fresh Raspberries on top and around cake dish.
• *NOTE: If you are using sugar in the cake you will probably want to use regular Jam for your glaze instead of sugar-free. This is your choice. I also use a Jam called Fifty-50 sometimes. OR you can just dust with powdered sugar if you prefer it that way...however you make it, Enjoy!!!

SOUTHERN LIVING KEY LIME POUND CAKE (FROM SCRATCH) - SIMPLY DELIZIOUS BAKING

Steps:

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"ORIGINAL" SOUTHERN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven 325 degrees. In mixing bowl cream butter and sugar. Add 1 egg at a time, beating after each. Gradually add sifted flour, 1/2 cup at a time, til all blended. Add lemon juice and lemon rind, blend inches. Pour into a buttered and floured tube pan. Bake 1hr 15mins to 1hr 30 mins; Til toothpick in center comes out clean.

DAISY CAKES SOUTHERN POUND CAKE RECIPE - (4.1/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Thoroughly grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. In mixing bowl, cream butter. Add sugar and continue beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Scrape down your mixing bowl. Add sifted dry ingredients along with 1 cup buttermilk. Blend at low speed until combined. Scrape down bowl and mix for 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake at 325 degrees 50-55 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean with just a few crumbs on it. Do not overbake! When the cake is almost ready to come out of the oven, prepare the butter sauce. Combine the sugar, water and butter. Bring to a low boil and stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract. Do not allow the sauce to cool. It should be hot when poured over the cake. After removing the cake from the oven, prick the top of the cake with a long, wooden skewer. Pour the warm sauce over the cake while the cake is still in the tube pan. Allow the cake to cool for 20 minutes and remove from the pan. This allows the sauce to seep into the cake.