Pound cake gets its name not because it's heavy, but because of its easy recipe. This cake was originally intended to be made up of a pound of each of its four main ingredients: flour, sugar, butter and eggs. It's the cake that you can make without a recipe -- anywhere, anytime. And for that reason alone it is glorious. Not to mention all the ways you can make it taste better than the tallest of layer cakes and the softest of angel food cakes.
You can amp up a plain pound cake by drizzling it with glaze or dusting it with sugar; you can flavor it with cocoa powder, fruits and even bacon. The possibilities are endless -- and all of them delicious.
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Check out these 26 different ways you can make pound cake awesome:
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Chocolate Pound Cake With Bacon Bourbon Frosting
How Sweet It Is
2
Matcha Marble Pound Cake
Hummingbird High
3
Meyer Lemon Pound Cake
Brown Eyed Baker
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4
Mini Brown Butter Vanilla Bean Pound Cakes
How Sweet It Is
5
Lightened Up Blueberry Lemon Pound Cake
Averie Cooks
6
Pistachio Cardamom Pound Cake
The View From The Great Island
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7
Tangerine Sour Cream Pound Cake
Hummingbird High
8
Spiked Almond Joy Poundcake
How Sweet It Is
9
Mini Lemon Sour Cream Pound Cakes With Beet Glaze
Hummingbird High
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10
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
Brown Eyed Baker
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Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Pound Cake With Peanut Butter Glaze
Recipe Girl
12
Cold Oven Pound Cake
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13
Lemon Ricotta Pound Cake
Alexandra Cooks
14
Pistachio Lover’s Pound Cake
Leite's Culinaria
15
Mocha Crumble Pound Cake
Whisk Kid
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16
Glazed Lemon Pound Cake
Keep It Simple, Keep It Fresh
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Cranberry Orange Cream Cheese Pound Cake
sophistimom
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Cinnamon Roll Pound Cake
Creme de la Crumb
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19
Spicy Mocha Pound Cake
Bev Cooks
20
Sherry And Olive Oil Pound Cake
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21
Zebra Pound Cake
Baker's Royale
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22
Snickerdoodle Pound Cake
Peabody
23
Triple Coconut Pound Cake
The View From The Great Island
24
Nutella-Swirl Pound Cake
Fearless Homemaker
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25
Roasted Cardamom And Coffee Pound Cake
The View From The Great Island
26
Peanut Butter Cup Pound Cake
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