Easy Pound Cake

Name: Easy Pound Cake
Yield: One loaf cake, about 10 slices
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract; Pinch of ground mace; ¼ cup milk; ¾ teaspoon baking powder; 2 cups cake flour or unbleached all-purpose flour; ½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened; 1 cup sugar; 4 large eggs; ¼ teaspoon salt

Preparation info

One
loaf cake, about 10 slices

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to Bake

By Nick Malgieri

Published 1995

About

Mace, the outer covering of a nutmeg, is the traditional flavoring for pound cake.

Ingredients

½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup sugar

Americas
United States
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Set a rack at the middle level of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees.
In a bowl, beat the butter with the sugar until soft and light. Beat in 3 of the eggs, one at a time. Beat in the salt, mace, and vanilla extract.
In a separate bowl, comb