Enjoy Our Deliciously Soft and Tender, Sara Lee Pound Cake Made from Scratch
Pound cake is usually made with a pound of ingredients. They bake well at lower temperatures on the bottom shelf of the oven. Pound cake is usually either baked in a loaf pan or Bundt cake pan. Some pound cakes are baked at 350F degrees like so many other types of regular cakes. P ound cakes are mostly served with dusted powdered sugar or with a regular glaze. The history states it was an English creation and started somewhere around in 1700s. A pound of flour, a pound of sugar and a pound of cracked open eggs and a pound of butter would make a traditional pound cake. With every added ingredient the version gets revised and a new recipe is added to the pound cake. Thus a heavy version of a pound cake is created, with a tight and tender crumb. The cake is topped with fresh cream or butter cream and dried or fresh fruits and served with tea. The history tells us that now any cake can be considered a pound cake which has equal proportions of eggs, flour, sugar and shortening, ...