Vanilla Pound Cake
Posted On 13 November 2023
Wow people with cooking websites love to blather on about unrelated shit.
I always find pound cake too big. So this I wrote for working in my loaflet pans.
Vanilla Pound Cake Loaflets
Smaller pound cakes. No judgment.
Servings: 3 loaflets
Equipment
- Stand mixer or hand mixer.
Ingredients
- 240 grams all-purpose flour (2 cups)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 170 grams unsalted butter, room temperature (12 tablespoons / 1.5 sticks)
- 198 grams granulated sugar (1 cup)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 4 large eggs
- 57 grams milk (¼ cup) (see notes)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350℉ (175℃)
- Grease and flour 3 loaflet pans. Or one one-pound loaf pan if you'd like.
- In a bowl mix together the flour, salt, and baking powder. Set aside.
- To your mixer bowl add the butter and sugar and, once mixed, beat on high speed until fluffy, 2-3 minutes.
- On medium speed, add the vanilla and then add one egg at a time until all added and incorporated. Then add the milk. Mix until fully combined.
- Add in the flour mixture half a cup at a time on low, increasing to medium for a minute after all has been added and mixed.
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl and distribute evenly among your three prepared loaflet pans.
- Bake for 30 minutes, rotating half-way through. Check that a toothpick comes out clean. Bake another few minutes if it doesn't.
Notes
- We never have milk around, so I pretty much always use half-and-half or heavy cream when a recipe calls for milk. I recommend it.