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Easy Yummy Nine Egg Pound Cake

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Nine Egg Pound Cake. Add eggs one at a time – beat well. Add flour gradually and beat well. Allow butter and eggs to come to room temperature.

Nine Egg Pound Cake I say this because traditional pound cakes used a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a dozen eggs. It was developed before recipes were written and recorded and persevered time most likely because the ingredient ratios were easy to remember. Pound cake gets its name from the weight of each of the ingredients needed to make the cake. You can make Nine Egg Pound Cake using 6 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Nine Egg Pound Cake

  1. It’s of Butter.
  2. It’s of Sugar.
  3. Prepare of Eggs.
  4. You need of Flour.
  5. Prepare of Vanilla extract.
  6. Prepare of Almond extract.

Pound cake requires exactly one pound each of flour, sugar, butter, and eggs. If you are using an electric mixer, adjust accordingly. Gradually add the flour and mix well. Pound Cake is one of those old fashioned cake recipes that will always have place on my dessert table.

Nine Egg Pound Cake instructions

  1. Allow butter and eggs to come to room temperature..
  2. Cream butter with sugar by adding about 1/2 cup sugar at a time..
  3. Blend eggs, one at a time, into butter and sugar mixture..
  4. Sift flour into 1/2 cup measuring cup over parchment paper. Level flour in cup and add to bowl..
  5. Add flour in 1/2 cup increments to butter, sugar and eggs. Mix each 1/2 cup well before adding additional 1/2 cup..
  6. Add vanilla and almond to cake mix and mix well..
  7. Spray cooking spray in tube pan and add cake mix. Make the cake mix as level as possible in the tube pan..
  8. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour..
  9. Check cake by sticking with toothpick. When it comes out clean it is ready to be removed from oven..
  10. Place cake on cake rack until cool, around 30 minutes..
  11. Place tray on top of cake and flip over..
  12. Flip cake over, cut into slices and serve. I'm told it's best warm with butter..
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I have created all sorts of variations on pound cake like my Million Dollar Pound Cake which includes (among other things) buttermilk to tenderize the crumb, and of course my Kentucky Butter Cake which is a MUST make!. But today we're talking about traditional. this is the best pound cake ever! This recipe make a lot of cake batter so use an extra large bundt pan or divide it up when baking or it will spill over! Add in large eggs one at a time – beat well. Add in flour gradually and beat well.

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