Think of pound cake as the original no-recipe recipe. It takes its name from the weight of its four crucial ingredients—flour, sugar, butter, and eggs. Traditionally, the cake was made from one pound ...

Have you ever wondered what sets pound cake apart from any other? The answer actually lies within the name itself. The original recipe was made using one pound of each of the primary ingredients — ...

The secret here is that there is no secret: It’s the classic “pound” cake with equal weights of butter, sugar, eggs and flour. Back in the day of easy grocery runs and well-stocked kitchens, I tested ...

Pound Cake I’ve always called this a pound cake. According to my mother’s recipe notes, though, it was my Aunt Mildred’s “plain cake.” Maybe she used that name because she never glazed or frosted ...

Ina Garten has built a food empire through her Barefoot Contessa brand. It started out as a small, East Hampton specialty foods store, but through the years, Garten turned it into a series of 12 ...

There is no shortage of pound cake recipes on the internet. About 172,000,000 results come up when you type pound cake into Google, and each recipe has its own take on the dense, buttery confection.

Learn the top 20 cake recipes that Southern Living readers believe are the best of all time, from Hummingbird Cake to Million Dollar Pound Cake.

Drummond wrote about her lemon-lime pound cake in a blog post on The Pioneer Woman website. “The same ol’ 7-Up pound cake we all grew up with, but amped up with lemon and lime zest and a tangy/sweet ...

Doris Ward called me early one morning to recite her lemon pound cake recipe over the phone. She had clipped the recipe from a Southern Living Magazine years ago and still makes it. This cake is easy ...