Vanilla Pound Cake

Vanilla Pound Cake has the perfect texture of an old fashioned pound cake with just the right amount of vanilla flavoring. A traditional pound cake is heavy with a nice outer crust and a moist center. This recipe ticks all the boxes.

Most pound cakes call for all purpose flour, but this one is just perfect with cake flour. I mean its the kind of cake you say, I'll just have one slice. Then, you find yourself standing over the kitchen counter with a fork snacking until someone catches you. Yep, you may think it won't happen to you, but wait and see. A good cake is hard to turn down.

Tips for Vanilla Pound Cake

• Measure your ingredients with a scale for the correct amount.
• Sift your flour.
• Use room temperature unsalted butter, NOT melted.
• I baked this cake in a 10x4 inch, 16 Cup Angel Food Cake tube pan, you can use a bundt cake pan, just make sure it is a tube pan.
• Shortening can be replaced with coconut oil.
• Spoon batter into the cake pan, then bang pan on counter a couple times to level the batter.
• Once cake is baked, let it cool on a rack for ten minutes. Then using oven mitts invert the cake pan onto cooling rack and allow it to drop.
• If you let the cake cool too long in the pan before inverting, it may get moist and the outer crust will stick to the pan.
• Let the cake cool completely before decorating with frosting and berries.
• Store cake in an air tight container at room temperature. You can also slice the un-frosted cake, wrap each slice individually with plastic wrap and freeze for later.

Jenn Davis

Vanilla Pound Cake Recipe

5 from 1 vote

Vanilla Pound Cake is an easy traditional pound cake recipe with a fluffy moist texture and lovely soft vanilla flavor. Easy Old Fashioned Pound Cake!

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

Servings: 12 slices

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

• ▢ 3 Cups (375 g) Cake Flour
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
• ▢ ⅛ teaspoon Kosher Salt
• ▢ 16 tablespoon (226 grams) Unsalted Butter, softened
• ▢ 3 Cups (600 grams) Granulated Sugar
• ▢ ½ Cup (113 grams) Shortening
• ▢ 5 Large Eggs
• ▢ 1 Cup (250 ml) Whole Milk
• ▢ 1 tablespoon Vanilla Extract

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Method

 

1. Preheat Oven to 325 F (162 C), then grease and flour a tube pan. ( 10x4 inch, 16 Cup Angel Food Cake Tube Pan)
2. Using a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
3. In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with paddle attachment on medium speed cream together butter and sugar until fluffy. (2-3 minutes.)
4. Add in shortening, mix until smooth. Scrape sides and bottom of bowl as needed.
5. Next, add one egg at a time, mixing until incorporated.
6. Then, pour in milk alternating with spooning in flour mixture until a cake batter is formed. (alternating prevents curdling)
7. Mix in vanilla.
8. Spoon cake batter into prepared cake pan. Give the pan a slight bang on the counter to level batter.
9. Bake on middle lowest rack for 1 hr and 15 minutes. Edges of cake will be golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the cake will come out with only moist crumbs not a wet batter.
10. Once cake is baked, let it cool on a rack for ten minutes. Then using oven mitts invert the cake pan onto cooling rack and allow it to drop.
11. Let the cake cool completely before decorating with frosting and berries.

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