Buttery and soft, the Pound Cake is a cake of ancient origins that looks like a plumcake … delicious! Try our recipe
Soft, soft and rich: it is the Pound Cake, a very simple cake to prepare and definitely greedy. It is said that even goes back to the eighteenth century, when it was served ai English banquets. The name takes up precisely the doses of the recipe: pound in fact it is the unit of measurement used to weigh the ingredients that compose it, butter, sugar, flour and eggs. A pound corresponds to 450 grams. A mammoth cake, you say!
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More buttery than plumcake
In fact, to prepare a homemade Pound Cake the weight will be reduced, so as to use then a typical mold of the plum cake to bake the cake. Or, alternatively, the donut. The consistency of the Pound Cake is actually very similar to that of a plumcake, although more moist and buttery. You can serve it for a snack, accompanied by a tea, or for breakfast.
The Pound Cake recipe
Ingredients
220 grams of butter, 250 grams of 00 flour, 200 grams of white sugar, 4 eggs, 7 grams of baking powder, grated lemon peel (choose natural lemons with edible skin), icing sugar to decorate the cake.
Method
Soften the butter by keeping it half an hour out of the fridge before starting. Work it with sugar, helping with a kneader. Slowly add the eggs and the sifted flour. Complete with lemon zest and, if you like, with squeezed lemon juice. Mix everything and move into the dough from plumcake, buttered and floured. Put in a hot oven at 180 ° C for 60 minutes.
How to decorate the Pound Cake?
The original recipe can be modified and enriched with the addition of fillings or decorations. Some idea? A lemon icing for example, to give a touch of freshness and acidity in contrast with the sweetness of butter. But lemon or orange can also be squeezed and added to the dough. Or delicious in accompaniment is also a spoonful of fresh whipped cream, together with fresh fruit, such as berries, or a dusting of cinnamon. Or again, they can be added to the mixture chocolate chips or one pumpkin puree (made from pumpkin cooked in the oven and then crushed with a knife, in this case reduce the amount of 50 grams or the mixture will be too wet).
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