Jacques Pepins Favorite Pound Cake
From midgelet 14 years ago
- 90 minutes to make
- Serves 12
Everyone needs a perfect pound cake for summer desserts. here is a reliable cake from a famous chef! I like this recipe because it makes a large loaf ! Great for shortcakes, fruit desserts and just plain with coffee freezes well too!
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups sugar shopping list
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 6 large eggs shopping list
- 1/4 cup milk, at room temperature shopping list
- 2 1/2 cups cake flour shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat the oven to 325°.
- Butter a 10-by-5-inch loaf pan.
- Line the bottom with a strip of parchment paper that extends 2 inches past the short ends of the pan.
- In a bowl, using an electric mixer, beat the butter with the sugar, vanilla and salt at medium speed until fluffy, 3 minutes.
- Add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating between additions.
- Beat in the milk.
- Sift the flour over the batter and whisk it in until smooth.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the surface.
- Bake the cake for 1 1/2 hours, until it is cracked down the center, golden on top, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let the cake cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then unmold the cake and let cool completely.
- Make Ahead
- The cake can be kept at room temperature, covered, for up to 3 days.
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Mmmmm, I love pound cake and Jacques Pepin is one of my favourite chefs! You've got my HIGH 5!
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This looks wonderful!
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w0w Large Loaf{Nice} gotta print and save thanks bunches high5
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