Vanilla Pound Cake Recipe • For Vanilla Lovers! (2024)

FAQs

What's the difference between pound cake and vanilla cake? ›

The differences include: Ingredients: Pound cake has more fat than regular cake, and has four ingredients: butter, eggs, flour, and sugar. Regular cake has the same four ingredients plus more ingredients. Regular cake also has baking powder, baking soda, and buttermilk or milk.

Butter cakes (also referred to as creamed cakes) have a lighter texture and greater volume than pound cakes. Pound cakes (named because they originally contained one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs and flour) tend to be denser.

Baking tip #6: Adding a touch of vanilla extract, ¼ teaspoon to be exact, is all it takes to make your box cake taste better, even homemade. Using authentic vanilla permeates your cake, leaving the essence of vanilla in every bite.

Cake Flour: Cake flour is lighter than all-purpose flour and produces the best pound cake in my opinion. Since it's so light, the attention remains on the butter. All-purpose flour is simply too heavy for this pound cake recipe; the cake will be heavy as a brick. If needed, use this homemade cake flour substitute.

The Eggs: Pound cakes require a lot of eggs to create that dense texture. Some folks say that you shouldn't use fresh eggs in pound cakes because they don't mix into the batter as easily and can result in overmixing. I've always used my chicken's fresh eggs for pound cakes and it comes out fantastic, so who knows!

Yes, you can eat cookie or cake batter that has more vanilla extract in it than what is called for in the recipe. That weird aftertastes is normal. If this happens in the future, try adding a little salt to balance out the flavor.

Let me introduce you to the cake soak.

When you do this, the cake integrates moisture and flavor, and the sweetened liquid helps preserve the cake's freshness, so a slice can taste just as delicious a couple days after baking.

Elvis favored classic southern sweets for dessert, and one favorite happened to be pound cake. Not just any pound cake but a particular one. The Sterns say pound cake for Elvis meant a cake baked by his childhood friend, Janelle McComb.

Is pound cake the same as angel food cake? ›

While a Pound Cake is considered dense, it still has beautiful moist crumbs to it and should not be chewy or gummy. Angel Food Cake is a much more delicate cake. It is known for its light texture which is full of air and soaks up the flavors of whatever it is topped with.

Beat the butter and sugar together until the mixture is light in color and fluffy; this will take about 5 minutes. (Granulated sugar and butter will be pale yellow when creamed.

Yes, when adding eggs to a cake mix, it's a common practice to beat them first. Beating the eggs before incorporating them into the cake batter helps ensure a smoother and more even distribution of the eggs throughout the mixture. This results in a better texture and consistency for your cake.

Just one more egg will add extra moisture, fat, and a little protein, which means the cake will be softer and less likely to overbake and dry out in the oven.

Put some pudding in the mix: Add a small box of pudding mix in with the cake mix. (Don't make the pudding.) The mix adds additional flavor, moistness, and a denser texture.

Pound cakes are shortened cakes that contain no chemical leavening agents. Pound cakes rely on air and steam for leavening. You must thoroughly cream the fat and sugar when making pound cake.

The sponge cake has a high egg to flour ratio, and leavening is achieved by beating air into the whole egg or the egg white instead of using a raising agent like baking powder. In contrast, pound cake prioritizes the butter to be whisked initially with the flour, and relies on a raising agent for the leavening.

The original recipe was essentially a cake that was made from a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, and a pound of eggs. This is actually where the pound cake received it's name. Each ingredient added to the cake weighed one pound.

It is also worth noting that the “Pound Cake” is now known by many names; “Madeira Cake” or “Yellow Cake” even simply “Loaf Cake”. No matter what it's called, one thing is for sure! The simple sponge cake recipe has stood the test of time and remained a staple for home baking!