The Perfect Pound Cake Recipe – Get It Right By Following This Crucial Step!

Making anything can be difficult if you make common mistakes but making pound cake can end up turning into a dry, tasteless mess if you make certain mistakes. Some of them may seem obvious like taking your time with the batter. Others you may never have even thought about. We guarantee you if you follow these tips and tricks for avoiding common mistakes when making your pound cake, it won't just be good, it'll be fantastic!

The Common Mistakes You Should Avoid When Making Pound Cake Are:

Don’t Scoop Dry Ingredients
“Whisk your dry ingredients to remove lumps,” says Saffitz, “Then use fluff, spoon, level method.” , Use a fork or whisk to fluff up flour, spoon into measuring cup. Level it with a knife.

Eggs and Butter Should Be Room Temperature
Not only should your eggs and butter be at room temperature, they should also all be the same temperature. Adding cold eggs to warm butter will cause them to seize. Set eggs, butter out on counter for several hours before you plan to bake.

Thoroughly Cream Your Batter
Expect to use your stand or electric mixer for at least five minutes—or more. Don’t stop when the mixture looks combined. “It should be very pale in color; almost white,” Saffitz explains.

Don’t Overmix

Saffitz recommends stopping the electric mixer when you begin to see white streaks running through the batter. Use a spatula to gently fold in rest of flour. “Gently” is key here; overmixing with a heavy hand will cause batter to deflate, all your hard work creaming will be reversed. The result will be a dense, tough cake.

Butter and Flour Pan
Use softened butter to grease entire interior of loaf pan. Be sure to coat every crevice, including corners and seams where edges meet bottom. Add flour, turn pan to coat it entirely. Turn pan upside down, tap gently to remove excess flour, rotating pan as you tap.

Don’t Overbake
325-350 degrees is ideal when it comes to baking pound cake. Position pan in middle of oven, rotate it once, halfway through baking time, as it bakes to account for any hot spots. don't bake anything else in oven. Most pound cake recipes should be baked for over an hour.

Cool Cake Partially in Pan Then Turn Out
Set on wire rack, let cool in pan 20 minutes. A hot cake is too delicate to be removed . Don’t wait too long to take it out; you don’t want condensation to form, or cake to steam. Gently invert pan, remove, finish cooling on rack.

Add Flavors
If it’s a vanilla cake you’re after, scrape a vanilla bean into batter; flavor is superior to extract. add other flavors with extracts, spices, and zests.