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    Home » By Category » Bakes » Cakes, Muffins

    Published: Jul 11, 2011 · Modified: Oct 11, 2020 by Usha Rao

    Pound Cake for Sweet Punch

    I am late posting this month's sweet punch. For the month of July, sweet punch went back to the basics to bake a simple pound cake. The recipe is from The Cake Bible. According to Rosie, this cake is tight and comes out like the Sara Lee pound cake. I totally agree with her. The cake out perfect and the procedure is very simple and easy as well.

    Simple Pound Cake, Sara Lee's Pound Cake

    Total Time: 65 - 70 minutes
    Preparation: 10 - 15 minutes
    Bake Time: 55 - 65 minutes
    Yields: 1 Loaf

    Ingredients:

    • 3 large Eggs at room temperature
    • 13 Tbsp. / 184 gms. Unsalted Butter softened (I brought it to room temperature)
    • 1 ½ cups sifted Cake Flour
    • ¾ tsp. Baking Powder
    • ¼ tsp. Salt
    • ¾ cup Sugar
    • 3 tbsp. Milk
    • 1 ½ tsp. Vanilla

    Preparation:

    • Bring eggs and butter to room temperature. I left them on the counter top for 2 hours.
    • Preheat the oven to 350F.
    • Butter an 8" x 4" x 2.5" loaf pan, or any six cup loaf or fluted tube pan.
    • Sift together flour, salt and baking powder. I did not have cake flour on hand and made it myself. I took 1 ½ cups of all purpose flour in a bowl, removed 3 tablespoon of flour out of it. Replace the flour with 3 tablespoon of corn startch. Sifted the flour couple of times to mix the flour and hte corn startch.
    • Lightly whisk together milk, vanilla extract and eggs.
    • In a big bowl take the dry ingredients and mix it using an hand mixer for 30 seconds so that the ingredients mix well.
    • Add the butter, half the egg mixture and continue to mix it until all dry ingredients become moist. Increase the speed to medium and beat for one more minute. My hand mixer has fold, mix, beat and whip options. I used the beat option here. This will aerate and give a nice structure to the batter.
    • Add the remaining egg mixture in 2 batches, beating for 20-30 seconds after each addition. Scape down the batter.
    • Pour the batter into the buttered pan, smooth the surface and bake for 55-65 minutes in a pre-heated oven. I baked my loaf for 55 minutes or bake it until a tooth pick inserted in the middle comes out clean. It is important that you insert the tooth pick in the middle to check if the cake is baked.
    • Cool the cake on a rack for 10 minutes and flip it over. If you used a loaf pan as I did, carefully flip it over so that top is up.
    • Let the cake cool completely before slicing it.

    Note: (Copy pasting it from the sweet punch blog)

    • For making Cake flour at home - Take one cup of all purpose flour and remove 2 tablespoon from it.Replace the 2 tablespoon flour with cornflour and sift together 2-3 times.Cake flour is ready to use.

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    1. deepthi says

      December 25, 2012 at 12:11 pm

      hey i tried this and it came very nicely
      thanks for the recipe 🙂

      Reply
    2. Kite says

      June 13, 2012 at 1:32 pm

      Can u tell me the difference between corn starch and corn flour? Are they the same? As, in the recipe u told to use corn starch while u asked to use corn flour in the making of the cake flour?????
      I usually use all purpose flour for baking the cake...
      Please answer this !!!!

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      • MySpicyKitchen says

        June 13, 2012 at 1:51 pm

        In India corn starch is called corn flour. The organizer of that month's sweet punch is based in India and as I mentioned in the post, I copied "making cake flour at home" from that blog. Corn flour we get in American stores is yellow in color and is not the same as corn flour in India.

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    3. Jay says

      August 05, 2011 at 7:46 am

      wow...sounds divine..
      first time here..amazing blog you have..
      wonderful recipe collection..
      Am your new subscriber now..:)
      do stop by mine sometime..

      Reply
    4. Gopika says

      July 18, 2011 at 5:35 pm

      Awesome pound cake 😀 I love em 🙂

      Reply
    5. Radhika @ foodfor7stages says

      July 14, 2011 at 7:13 pm

      We love this cake. Isn't so moist and yumm.

      Reply
    6. Christine says

      July 13, 2011 at 12:39 am

      Pound cake looks good. Thanks for sharing.

      Reply
    7. Notyet100 says

      July 12, 2011 at 8:28 am

      Ummm cake looks so delicious

      Reply
    8. Rajani says

      July 12, 2011 at 3:46 am

      Cake looks really yummy 🙂

      Reply
    9. Miriam says

      July 12, 2011 at 2:37 am

      the pound cake looks perfect...must be the best thing to have with a warm cup of tea or coffee...:)

      Reply
    10. nags says

      July 11, 2011 at 9:32 pm

      the cakes baked in loaf pans all look so similar 🙂

      Reply
    11. Pavani says

      July 11, 2011 at 9:16 pm

      Pound cake looks amazing. Yummy click.

      Reply
    12. Vidhya Jayadeep says

      July 11, 2011 at 7:55 pm

      Pound cake looks so perfect and yum.

      Reply

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