Best pound cake recipe?

[kittykupkake]

Would anyone be willing to share with me the best pound cake recipe to use for a cake that is going to be sculpted? I've heard the pound cakes are the best to use for shaping.

Thank you!!

[carilyn]

Good question. I like to know too. I haven't sculpted a cake yet.

[cakebaker]

I don't use a pound cake for carving just because I don't generally like them. They're too heavy and dry for me!

I use the wasc (white almond sour cream) recipe that's listed on cakecentral. It makes a really firm cake, but not so heavy and dense as a pound cake...plus it's basically a doctored cake mix which I love doing!

[2sdae]

This is my own recipe for pound cake and it is very good for sculpting. It is also very sweet and moist.
Butter vanilla pound cake.

Serves/Yields: 2-8in, 2-6 in+12 cupcakes

easy recipe for a pound cake type cake.Ingredients

3 cups all purpose flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1 package vanilla pudding
1/2 tsp. popcorn salt
1 1/2 cups butter or 2 1/2 sticks
2 2/3 cup sugar
1 tbs. heavy cream
1 cup heavy cream
1 tbs. vanilla bean paste or 1 vanilla bean scraped
6 large eggs
Directions

preheat oven to 325 f.

combine and sift flour, salt, and pudding package. Put in a bowl and set aside.

cream butter, sugar and vanilla thoroughly, add 1 tbs. of heavy cream and beat hard for 30 sec.

add the flour and 1 cup of heavy cream alternating between the two and scraping down the bowl at least 1 during this.

add eggs 1 at a time making sure each is incorporated before adding another. Scrape down sides of bowl 1/2 way through.

spoon into pans and bake until golden brown and cake springs back when gently touched.

This is a dense and sweet pound cake. Goes very well with butter cream dream icing or any creamy icing. This a little sweet to cover with chocolate icing in my opinion but that is just what it is, my opinion!

[kittykupkake]

Thank you! I'll have to try both of these recipes

[cakebaker]

I really like the wasc. It tastes very good and has a great texture without being heavy.

I also like the doctored cake mix method. It's easy, but better yet, it's very inexpensive to use.

I buy cake mixes about 3 times a year. I use Pillsbury and after every holiday I go to target and stock up on their holiday cake mixes at 48 cents a box. They make them for Halloween, Christmas and Easter. I usually have just enough to last between holidays.


Yep...I'm a mix baker and proud of it!

[carilyn]

I like mixes too. I have been wanting to try the wasc recipe.

[Amanda]

I use mixes all the time. I have a few "premium" cake flavors that are from scratch, but the majority are doctored mixes. Everyone loves them, so why change it? I'd go broke if I made everything from scratch.

ps...I use Duncan Hines.

[2sdae]

I have used doctored mixes often, but I too have my tried and true recipes I stick to as well.

[elizw]

Originally Posted by 2sdae

This is my own recipe for pound cake and it is very good for sculpting. It is also very sweet and moist.
Butter vanilla pound cake.

Serves/Yields: 2-8in, 2-6 in+12 cupcakes

easy recipe for a pound cake type cake.Ingredients

3 cups all purpose flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1 package vanilla pudding
1/2 tsp. popcorn salt
1 1/2 cups butter or 2 1/2 sticks
2 2/3 cup sugar
1 tbs. heavy cream
1 cup heavy cream
1 tbs. vanilla bean paste or 1 vanilla bean scraped
6 large eggs
Directions

preheat oven to 325 f.

combine and sift flour, salt, and pudding package. Put in a bowl and set aside.

cream butter, sugar and vanilla thoroughly, add 1 tbs. of heavy cream and beat hard for 30 sec.

add the flour and 1 cup of heavy cream alternating between the two and scraping down the bowl at least 1 during this.

add eggs 1 at a time making sure each is incorporated before adding another. Scrape down sides of bowl 1/2 way through.

spoon into pans and bake until golden brown and cake springs back when gently touched.

This is a dense and sweet pound cake. Goes very well with butter cream dream icing or any creamy icing. This a little sweet to cover with chocolate icing in my opinion but that is just what it is, my opinion!

thanks!!! i wanted to ask you for this recipe earlier but didn't want to intrude.