Best 10 Cold Oven Pound Cake Recipes

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Cold oven pound cake, also known as Depression cake, is a classic American dessert that has been enjoyed for generations. It is a simple and inexpensive cake to make, and it is perfect for any occasion. The key to making a good cold oven pound cake is to use high-quality ingredients and to follow the recipe carefully. From the classic pound cake to variations that include chocolate chips, nuts, and fruits, there's a recipe out there for everyone. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice, this guide will help you find the perfect cold oven pound cake recipe to satisfy your sweet tooth.

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COLD OVEN POUND CAKE



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An old-fashioned pound cake that goes into a cold oven before baking.

Provided by Etta Coates

Categories     Desserts     Cakes     Pound Cake Recipes

Time 2h

Yield 16

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 cup margarine
½ cup shortening
3 cups white sugar
3 eggs
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup milk
3 cups all-purpose flour

Steps:

  • Do not preheat oven. Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.
  • In a large bowl, cream together the margarine, shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Beat in the flour alternately with the milk. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  • Place cake in cold oven, then set the temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Bake for 90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 409.5 calories, Carbohydrate 56.3 g, Cholesterol 36.1 mg, Fat 19.1 g, Fiber 0.6 g, Protein 4.2 g, SaturatedFat 4.1 g, Sodium 151.3 mg, Sugar 38.5 g

COLD OVEN POUND CAKE



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Make and share this Cold Oven Pound Cake recipe from Food.com.

Provided by TansGram

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h10m

Yield 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 9

6 eggs
3 cups sugar
3 cups flour
1 cup milk
1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup Crisco
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons flavoring, of choice

Steps:

  • Do not preheat oven!
  • Mix Crisco and butter; add sugar and eggs, one at a time, and milk.
  • Beat after each ingredient and egg is added.
  • Add flour, baking powder and salt to mixture.
  • Add flavoring.
  • Bake 1 hour and 10 minutes at 350°.

NANNY'S COLD OVEN POUND CAKE



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When my grandmother passed, I received all of her cookbooks. One has in her writing "Oldest and Best" and the inscription " The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened. Matt.13:33. The book is tattered all around the edges, stained and has notes and writings...

Provided by cathy tate

Categories     Cakes

Time 1h25m

Number Of Ingredients 6

2 stick butter
2 c sugar
6 large eggs
2 c all-purpose flour
1 tsp almond flavoring
1 tsp vanilla flavoring

Steps:

  • 1. Cream butter and sugar very well - this is the secret to the success of the cake. Then reduce speed on the mixer and add eggs, one at a time. Add flavoring, then flour a little at a time. Put in cold oven; turn on oven to 300 degrees and bake 1 hour or until spaghetti noodle stuck into center of cake comes out clean.

COLD-OVEN POUND CAKE RECIPE - (3.3/5)



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Provided by jeckert

Number Of Ingredients 8

3 cups cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
20 tablespoons (2 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter , softened
2 1/2 cups sugar
6 large eggs

Steps:

  • 1. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position. Grease and flour 16-cup tube pan. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in bowl. Whisk milk and vanilla in measuring cup. 2. With electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and sugar until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until combined. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with 2 additions of milk mixture. Mix on low until smooth, about 30 seconds. Use rubber spatula to give batter final stir. 3. Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth top. Place cake in cold oven. Adjust oven temperature to 325 degrees and bake, without opening oven door, until cake is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 65 to 80 minutes. 4. Cool cake in pan for 15 minutes, then turn out onto rack. Cool completely, about 2 hours. Serve. (Cooled cake can be stored in airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.)

COLD OVEN POUND CAKE



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My mother made this pound cake recipe many times during my formative years. I always found it odd that the oven did not need preheating, but the cake always turned out exceptionally well for her and me as well.

Provided by Fauve

Categories     Dessert

Time 2h5m

Yield 1 cake

Number Of Ingredients 8

1 cup butter
1 cup vegetable shortening
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
1 cup buttermilk
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract

Steps:

  • Cream butter, shortening, sugar and eggs for 10 minutes.
  • Alternately add buttermilk and flour, beating well each time.
  • Add extracts.
  • Pour into greased and floured 10" tube pan and put into cold oven.
  • Turn temperature to 300*.
  • Bake 1 hour and 45 minutes or till cake tests done.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 8145, Fat 426, SaturatedFat 187.2, Cholesterol 1766.8, Sodium 1995.5, Carbohydrate 996.7, Fiber 13.5, Sugar 616, Protein 99.4

COLD OVEN 1800'S POUND CAKE



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This was given to me by a friend of the family when I was in my teens and I would go over to her place and clean to get extra cash and this was her "Church Cake" that she would take all the time. I was lucky enought to get her box of recipes from her son when she pasted away and found out that this had been pased down from the...

Provided by michelle minosh

Categories     Cakes

Time 1h25m

Number Of Ingredients 8

1/2 tsp baking soda
20 Tbsp butter
2 1/2 c sugar
3 c cake flour
1 c whole milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
6 eggs

Steps:

  • 1. Cream the butter and sugar. Add the eggs in one at a time untill well mixed.
  • 2. In a seprate bowl mix flour, salt, baking soda together. In a seprate bowl mix the vanilla and milk togeher.
  • 3. On medium speed alternating flour mix and milk mix add them to the butter/suger mix till it is well blended.
  • 4. Take a well greesed angel food pan and pour batter evenly. Place the pan in a COLD OVEN and then turn it on to 325 and cook for 60 to 85 min.
  • 5. It will be done when a cake tester or tooth pick comes out clean. Can be served hot, warm, cold, as is, with powdered sugar, icing, frosing, taking jam and heating it then pouring it over the cake, topings can be unlimiting

CHRISTY'S COLD OVEN POUND CAKE



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Christy is a truly wonderful cook, especially talented with dessert. This cake is her specialty, good with fresh whipped cream, fruits or just plain. Don't leave out the mace, it adds a nice flavor. It's called cold oven pound cake because you bake in an oven that has not been preheated.

Provided by LonghornMama

Categories     Dessert

Time 2h

Yield 12 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 1/2 cups butter (no substitutes!)
3 cups sugar
1 cup evaporated milk
5 large eggs
1/2 teaspoon mace
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups flour

Steps:

  • Cream together sugar and butter; add milk.
  • Mix eggs in one at a time; add mace and vanilla.
  • Gradually blend in flour.
  • Pour into a buttered tube pan.
  • Place cake in a cold oven.
  • Turn oven to 325° and bake 1 hour, 45 minutes or until cake tests done.

COLD OVEN POUND CAKE



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Categories     Egg

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 8

3 cups cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
20 tablespoons (2 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 1/2 cups sugar
6 large eggs

Steps:

  • You'll need a 16­ cup tube pan or angel food cake pan for this recipe; if not using a nonstick pan, make sure to thoroughly grease a traditional pan. In step 2, don't worry if the batter looks slightly separated. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Adjust oven rack to lower­middle position. Grease and flour 16­cup tube pan. Combine flour, baking powder, an salt in bowl. Whisk milk and vanilla in measuring cup. 2. With electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter and sugar until fluffy, about 2 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at time, until combined. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture in 3 additions, alternating with 2 additions of mil mixture. Mix on low until smooth, about 30 seconds. Use rubber spatula to give batter final stir. 3. Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth top. Place cake in cold oven. Adjust oven temperature to 325 degre and bake, without opening oven door, until cake is golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 65 to 80 minutes. 4. Cool cake in pan for 15 minutes, then turn out onto rack. Cool completely, about 2 hours. Serve. (Cooled cake can be stored in airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.)

COLD OVEN POUND CAKE



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Yes, no preheating. It's a lovely moist and easy pound cake. Enjoy

Provided by Rose Rauhauser

Categories     Cakes

Time 1h45m

Number Of Ingredients 8

2 stick unsalted butter (softened)
3 c sugar
6 ex.large eggs
3 c flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 c heavy cream
2 tsp vanilla extract (you may also change to lemon or almond extract too)

Steps:

  • 1. DO NOT PREHEAT OVEN (COLD ONLY) Generously grease and flour a 10 inch bundt pan. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Alternately add to the flour mixture with the heavy cream to butter mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Stir in flavoring. Pour batter into prepared pan. COLD OVEN. Bake at 325 for 1 hour 15 minutes. Test for doneness. May have to bake an additional 15 minutes. Ovens vary. Remove and cool in pan at least 15 minutes or more. I serve either plain, with a side of fresh fruit cut up or ice cream. It's great sliced and toasted w/butter for breakfast. It also freezes well.

COLD OVEN POUND CAKE



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This recipe came to me as a Very Young Bride, 43 yrs. ago from my Mother-in-law. It is so easy and always a crowd pleaser. My kids and grand-kids always want this when they come, so guess what,Cold Oven Pound Cake. Really good with Fresh Strawberries and Redi-whip.

Provided by Susan Hardee

Categories     Cakes

Time 1h25m

Number Of Ingredients 6

1 c = 2 sticks margarine
2 c sugar
2 c sifted sr flour
6 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond extract

Steps:

  • 1. Put flour in your bowl, then all of the rest of ingredients.
  • 2. Beat 12 FULL minutes. Be sure 12 FULL MINUTES.
  • 3. Grease and flour your TUBE PAN,or BUNDT PAN
  • 4. Put in COLD OVEN ! Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes. Reduce temperature to 325 degrees. Bake for 55 more minutes.
  • 5. Empty cake onto your favorite Cake Plate. Enjoy !

Tips:

  • Mise en place: Always have your ingredients and tools ready before you start baking. This will help you stay organized and avoid scrambling.
  • Follow the recipe carefully: Pound cake is a delicate cake, so it's important to follow the recipe carefully. Don't substitute ingredients or change the steps, or you may not end up with a successful cake.
  • Use room temperature ingredients: This will help your cake to rise evenly and prevent curdling.
  • Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy: This will help to incorporate air into the cake, making it lighter and more tender.
  • Gradually add the eggs: Add them one at a time, beating well after each addition. This will help to prevent the cake from curdling.
  • Don't overmix the batter: Overmixing can make the cake tough. Mix just until the ingredients are combined.
  • Bake the cake in a preheated oven: This will help to prevent the cake from sinking in the middle.
  • Cool the cake completely before serving: This will help to prevent the cake from crumbling.

Conclusion:

Pound cake is a delicious and classic dessert that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. With its simple ingredients and easy-to-follow instructions, it's a great recipe for beginner bakers. By following the tips above, you can create a perfect pound cake that will be a hit with your family and friends.

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