Pound for Pound: Our Best Pound Cakes

Classic Pound Cake

7. Classic Pound Cake

Dense and decadent, this elegant yet simple Classic Pound Cake recipe transforms butter, flour, and sugar into slices of perfection. 

Recipe Development and Food Styling by Ben Mims

8. Roasted Pecan Pound Cake with Sorghum Streusel

If plain pound cake is your pair of everyday sneakers, then this pound cake by Ben Mims is your special- occasion stilettos. Roasted pecans are finely ground with sugar and then whipped with butter into a nutty batter enriched with sour cream. The crumbly cake is topped with a streusel imbued with fragrant sorghum syrup. Sorghum, a cereal grain that grows abundantly and is a popular ingredient in Southern cuisine, complements the pecans with its signature bitter, leathery taste. We love to serve thick slabs of the cake drizzled with an extra shot of sorghum on the corner so you can dip or smear your bites with as much extra syrup as you want.

9. German Chocolate Pound Cake

This confection gets its name from the brand of chocolate it uses, not its country of origin. Our Bundt version ditches the traditional layers, but keeps the coconut, pecan, and caramel flavor notes that made this German Chocolate Pound Cake a classic.  

10. Black-and-White Chocolate Marble Pound Cake with Vanilla Bean and Black Cocoa Glaze

It never gets old to marble chocolate and plain batters into a pound cake. For a modern update, however, we use black cocoa for the chocolate batter, which gives it a dark richness, and white chocolate in the “plain” batter to offset the bitter cocoa with sweetness. In this recipe by Ben Mims, we scoop both batters alternately into the Bundt pan using a spring- loaded ice cream scoop to create the marbled design without swirling the batters together, but feel free to pour both batters into the pan and swirl the batter with a table knife if you like. 

National Pound Cake Day

11. Tres Leches Pound Cake

We transformed this Latin dessert into a dense pound cake, soaked with three milks, of course.

Grilled Browned Butter Pound Cake with Berries

12. Grilled Browned Butter Pound Cake with Berries

Grilled cake? Oh yes. Lightly toasting slices of this browned butter-scented confection adds a sweet caramelized crunch to this Grilled Browned Butter Pound Cake with Berries.

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2 COMMENTS

  1. The coconut buttermilk pound cake has become my go-to recipe. This cake is absolutely delicious and never fails to garner comment usually ending with “ I have to have this recipe”
    I am relatively new to baking but the pandemic makes strange bedfellows. If I can make this anybody can. A definite winner

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