Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Brown Sugar Pound Cake




Happy New Year 2013!! This is my first blog post for 2013.  I think it's good luck to have a sweet treat as a first post for the New Year, it's a sign that this year will be sweet for us all, not salty, not sour, not bitter, but a very sweet year, or as the kids like to say, "SWEEEEET".!!

Brown Sugar Pound Cake is a dense wonderful cake, perfect with tea, or accompanied with whipped cream and strawberries, as my daughter would prefer. This cake doesn't have a lot of extra liquid such as milk added to it, as other recipes call for, which makes it more like a bread than a light cake. It reminded me of a brown sugar cookie. It would also be nice drizzled with chocolate or caramel sauce.

Pound Cake:

  • 1 cup - packed  Light Brown Sugar
  • 1 cup - (2 sticks) butter, softened
  • 4 - eggs
  • 1 teaspoon - vanilla extract
  • 1 3/4 cups - all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon - baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon - salt
Method:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. In large bowl, beat sugar and butter until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Gradually add to sugar mixture. Pour batter into pan. Bake one hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from pan and turn out on rack to cool completely. Top with whipped cream and fruit if you like.

Recipe adapted from Domino Sugar
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6 comments:

Jackie said...

Nice pound cake, Nettie! I can imagine the molasses in brown sugar gives it a warm and wonderful flavor.

Happy New Year,

Jackie@Syrup and Biscuits

Bibi @ Bibi's Culinary Journey said...

Happy New Year, Nettie!

Your pound cake looks delicious and I would enjoy it so much with my morning cup of coffee :)

Beverley said...

This reminds me of when I was a little girl and my friend's mother would make a similar recipe. Her whole house would smell of this cake and it was so delicious. time for me to bake one , thank you Nettie xoxo

Moore or Less Cooking said...

Thank you Jackie, hope you get a chance to try it! Nettie

Moore or Less Cooking said...

Thank you Bibi, It's perfect with a big cup of Joe! Nettie

Moore or Less Cooking said...

Dear Beverley,

I love memories of food, you just never know what is going to trigger them, let me know what you think after you get a chance to bake a Brown Sugar Pound Cake! Nettie