Vanilla Pound Cake: buttery, tender, sweet, insanely delicious pound cake! This pound cake is easy to make and only requires one bowl! It is perfect for breakfast, snacking or dessert!

Pound Cakes are my favorite cakes! There’s just something about their simplicity that makes them shine. No frosting is needed. No need to decorate the cake!

With pound cakes just bake them and they are ready to eat! If you want to take it further you could make a simple glaze and pour over them but I prefer my pound cakes without the glaze. They are so good on their own!

This Vanilla Pound Cake is irresistibly buttery and so moist! I love it with a steaming cup of tea. It just makes my day better!

I used my homemade vanilla extract in this recipe and the flavor is amazing! You could use any vanilla extract you have on hand or even vanilla essence would work as well.

Also, if you would like to try other flavors of pound cake check out my recommendations for different flavors below. Also, check out my insanely good Southern Lemon Pound Cake Recipe.

Ingredients For Vanilla Pound Cake

You need 8 simple ingredients for vanilla pound cake. (See full recipe below for the measurements.) The ingredients for pound cake are:

1. Butter

2. Sugar

3. Vanilla Extract

4. Milk

5. Eggs

6. Flour

7. Baking Powder

8. Salt

How Do You Make Pound Cake From Scratch?

Making pound cake from scratch is quite easy. Simply follow these steps:

1. Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

2. Add milk, vanilla extract and beat to combine.

3. Add eggs one at a time and beat to combine.

4. Add flour, baking powder, salt and beat to combine.

5. Pour into a greased and floured loaf pan.

6. Bake until golden brown and a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.

Why Is It Called Pound Cake?

It is called pound cake because traditionally pound cake is made with one pound of every ingredient. To make a traditional Pound Cake you need one pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one pound of eggs and one pound of flour.

For those who measure by grams one pound is equal to almost 500 grams.

How Many Eggs Is A Pound?

It takes about 8 eggs to make one pound.

An Updated Pound Cake Recipe

This vanilla pound cake recipe feeds off the traditional pound cake recipe as it calls for about half a pound of the main ingredients which are butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. However I added some other ingredients to make the cake even better.

The added ingredients are baking powder, salt, milk and vanilla extract.

What Does A Pound Cake Taste Like?

A pound cake is buttery, tender, moist, sweet and a little dense. It is sweet but not too sweet which makes it a great cake for breakfast.

Tips For Making Pound Cake

Here are tips for making the best vanilla pound cake:

1. Use room temperature ingredients. Make sure the eggs, milk and butter are all at room temperature. This will help them mix properly with the batter. Here are some tips on how to bring cake ingredients fast to room temperature:

• To bring cold butter quickly to room temperature, place 1 stick of butter in the microwave and heat it up for 10 seconds. You only need about 10 seconds for the butter to soften. If you overheat it, it starts to melt.
• To bring cold eggs to room temperature, place the eggs completely submerged in a bowl of lukewarm water.
• To bring cold milk to room temperature place one cup of milk in the microwave and heat it up for 10 seconds. Then stir the milk and use. Stirring the milk helps mix up the portions that are slightly warm with those that are cold.

2. Don’t overmix the batter. As with any cake batter, do not overmix the batter for pound cake. Mix everything to be just combined then stop mixing once you stop seeing particles of flour. Overmixing cake batter will cause the gluten in the flour to toughen, leading to tough cake.

Other Flavors You Can Add To Pound Cake

Pound cake takes on other flavors quite well. Try to switch it up by adding the following:

• Add orange zest and juice for orange pound cake. (Reduce the milk by half to make room for the orange juice.)
• Add lime zest and juice for lime pound cake. (Reduce the milk by half to make room for the orange juice.)
• Add lemon zest and juice for lemon pound cake. (Reduce the milk by half to make room for the orange juice.)
• Fold in blueberries for blueberry pound cake.
• Replace part of the butter with cream cheese for cream cheese pound cake.
• Add chocolate chips for chocolate chip pound cake.
• Add dried fruits for fruit cake.
• Switch vanilla Extract for almond Extract.

Tools for Vanilla Pound Cake (affiliate)

• 9 By 5 Loaf Pan
• Pastry Brush
• Hand Mixer
• Spatula
• Oven Mitts
• Cooling Rack

Watch How To Make Vanilla Pound Cake

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Also Check Out These Recipes:

• Yogurt Cake Recipe
• Plain Cake Recipe
• Homemade Vanilla Extract Recipe
• Lemon Pound Cake Recipe
• Banana Bread