Although simple, this formula yields a moist, buttery pound cake, with a golden brown crust. It bakes low and slow, at 300°F for about 1 hour and 40 minutes, until perfectly tender but not dry.

From simple loaves to pretty bundts, it's hard to deny the universal appeal of a buttery, fine-crumbed, not-too-sweet pound cake. Jodie Kautzmann is an editor, baker, and confectioner with more than ...

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 ...

Remember those moist pound cake recipes our Grandma's made from scratch? Those buttery cakes made with an equal amount of butter, eggs and flour that are so tender they melt in your mouth. Bake up a ...

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.

Welcome to Never Fail, a semi-regular column where we wax poetic about the recipes that never, ever let us down. This week: the pound cake recipe that commerce editor Elaheh Nozari just couldn't live ...

Pound cakes have never lost their appeal even though they have been made for centuries. Check out any potluck dinner, church dinner or family reunion, and a pound cake or two will be there. When great ...