This Old Fashioned Pound Cake recipe is one my mother made often throughout my childhood. Dense and buttery, this traditional pound cake is the perfect blank canvas for a fruit glaze or whipped topping.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword old fashioned pound cake, pound cake
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour15 minutesminutes
Servings 12people
Calories 371kcal
Author Emily Bruno
Ingredients
1cupunsalted butter, softened(2 sticks)
2cupsflour
2cupssugar
6eggs (room temperature)
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour a tube pan.
Cream the butter and sugar. The mixture should be light in color, like a pale yellow.
Add the eggs one at a time. Continue to mix until the egg disappears completely into the mixture.
Slowly incorporate the flour into the mixture one ½ cup at a time.
Bake for 60 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Allow to cool in the pan 10-15 minutes. Remove from pan to a wire rack and let cool completely.