Pound Cake from Heaven – delicious Southern pound cake recipe! Sweet, rich and still as light as a feather. Great for a potluck; everyone loves this! Serve with some fresh whipped cream and strawberries. Can freeze leftovers for a quick dessert later!!
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Pin This RecipeYou can never go wrong with a good pound cake for dessert. This pound cake is heavenly! I think the key to this pound cake is using White Lily flour. It makes the cake so light and fluffy while still having the richness you expect from a pound cake.
I baked this in a tube pan. I wanted to have that beautiful, yummy crunchy top to the pound cake. You can use a traditional bundt pan, but that crunchy goodness will be on the bottom of the cake. It will still taste delicious though! We served this with some whipped cream and strawberries. SO good! This is a great dessert for a potluck. It is so easy to make and everyone loves it!
Pound Cake from Heaven
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- 1½ cups unsalted butter softened
- 3 cups sugar
- 5 large eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose soft-wheat flour (White Lily)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 (5-oz) can evaporated milk
- ⅔ cup heavy cream
- 2 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp almond extract
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan. Set aside.
- Place butter in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat at medium speed for 6 minutes, until really light and fluffy. Gradually add sugar and beat for an additional minute. Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until the yolk disappears.
- Combine flour, baking powder and salt. Combine evaporated milk and heavy cream. Add flour mixture and cream mixture to butter mixture alternately beginning and ending with flour (⅓ flour mixture, ½ cream mixture, ⅓ flour mixture, ½ cream mixture, ⅓ flour mixture). Beat at slow speed after each addition. Stir in vanilla and almond extract. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake for 60 to 75 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 1 hour. Remove from pan and continue cooling on wire rack until completely cool.
Notes:
Steph
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If anyone has made this in loaf pans, what size did you use? 9×5″? Larger?
Can I use a hand mixer? I don’t have a stand mixer.
sure!
Don’t often leave reviews but this is definitely a keeper. Split the recipe in half after reading the review of it overflowing but it still came out perfectly and was done in 50 minutes!!!
Okay… let me start by saying this cake was awesome even after the fact that I really screwed up the recipe.
I put my sticks of butter in the microwave to get it softened. Then forgot about the butter until after I had already poured the “batter” in the Bundt pan.
So then creamed my softened butter. Poured the batter back into the bowl and added the creamed butter to the batter. Mixed it up for about 3-4 minutes and poured it in the pan.
Baked for 60 minutes. Brought it to a crawfish boil and everyone loved the cake!! It still came out perfectly!!
SO glad you were able to save it!
Where did u find white lily wheat flour
Walmart, Target, Publix
I have purchased it at the grocery store in the baking section.
Do I have to add the heavy cream? I don’t have any but I do have milk. Has anyone tried this without the heavy cream?
Using regular milk takes away the rich creamy flavor if the heavy whipping cream. I once used half and half and it was not as good.
What is the best flour to use. Can not find wheat flour
any all-purpose flour will be fine
I have made a lot of pound cakes in my time, and this one is hands down the best! It is a delicious, full proof recipe…pound cake perfection!
It works just fine
I made this yesterday. I followed the recipe exactly. I’m not sure about the almond flavoring. It is quite strong. I think I will omit it next time. My family loved it!! It’s already half gone. Lol!
Any tips for converting this to two loaf pans? I’m curious about baking times. I am taking it for a tailgate and would like to freeze one for next week.
What a great idea! But unfortunately, without further recipe testing, I cannot answer with certainty. As always, please use your best judgment regarding substitutions and modifications.
This pound cake is outrageous! I followed the recipe exactly, and it turned out perfectly! I will never use another pound cake recipe again…thank you so much!!
You can always adjust the amount of extracts to your personal preferences.
Do you sift the flour
I did not sift it.
Has anyone substituted the heavy cream with success,if so with what?
Yes, I used Half-n-Half today in this recipe and it was just fine.
If you do use a bundt pan, make sure to leave some room at the top of the pan so the cake can rise. I usually leave at least an inch – you will more than likely have left over batter.
Can we use cake flour instead of the white lily
I have not tried this recipe with cake flour, so I can not say.
This recipe is awesome and sooo versatile. I used plain unbleached flour and divided the mix in one standard loaf pan the rest in a square pan ,sprayed with pan flour. After about 60min 2 beautiful pound cakes. Cool and slice the loaf pan one and cut into squares from the square pan, I usually give one away or freeze it, thank you for the greatest pound cake recipe ever Stephanie!
This recipe is AWESOME I make it every other week as it is so versatile, I used a regular loaf pan and a square pan, sprayed with pam-flour, dividing the mixture in both. Once cooked and cooled, the one in loaf pan I slice and the one in Square pan well I cutinto squares ,lol, they come out perfect every time, after about 60 min. I also used plain unbleached flour, works for me, thank you Stephanie!
Can you use all purpose flour? I'm unable to find White Lily soft wheat flour
I used all purpose flour and it turned out great.
@Jessica A tube pan has a hole in the center with a flat bottom and a bundt pan has a hole in the center with a curved bottom and ridges/indentations all around.
Can you explain the difference between a tube pan and a bundt pan? I don't know which I have!
Jessica, A Bundt pan have designs a Tube pan does not. I like Tube pans for my pound cake. Bundt pans are pretty- I just like the old fashioned cake look. Go on Amazon and look the the two pans up. I hope this helps. I know it is an old post.