Brown Butter Pound Cake with Caramel Dip

This cake is like a big ingot of gold. Already-rich pound cake takes on extra panache with the addition of brown butter, which adds a slightly nutty flavor to the moist cake. Though intended as finger food, the cake should be served with small forked bamboo picks or large toothpicks on hand to prevent the sticky fingers that happen when that last nub of the cake is dipped.

For a thicker caramel sauce to use on ice cream, use less heavy cream, about