Best 10 Grandmothers Pound Cake I Recipes

GRANDMA'S TRADITIONAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Start with a cold oven. Do not preheat!
• Cream together butter, margarine, shortening and sugar in a large mixing bowl until creamy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.
• Mix together flour and baking powder; add to batter alternately with milk and vanilla.
• Pour into a well greased and floured Bundt pan. Be sure to grease all the way to the top of the pan and in center to ensure it doesn't stick coming out of the pan.
• Put into a cold oven and set at 325 degrees F.
• Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Check for doneness; bake up to 15 additional minutes if needed.
• Cool in pan for 15 minutes before inverting pan.

GRANDMOTHER'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven at 300 degrees.
• Butter and flour 1 large or 2 small loaf pans.
• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in eggs one at a time.
• When creamy fold in the flour and salt.
• Spoon in pan/pans.
• Bake for 1 1/2 hours.

GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Beat butter with an electric mixer until soft and creamy, scraping the sides of the bowl as you go, about 2 minutes. Gradually add in sugar on medium speed. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition until the yellow disappears from the previous one.
• Combine flour and baking soda in a bowl. Add sour cream to the creamed butter mixture alternately with the flour, ending with sour cream. Beat in vanilla and almond extract just until combined. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool, about 30 minutes. Dust with powdered sugar.

GRANNY CAKE I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Mix the eggs, undrained crushed pineapple, flour, 1 cup of the white sugar, baking soda, salt, and 1 teaspoon of the vanilla together and stir until just combined. Pour batter into one ungreased 9x13 inch baking pan.
• Combine the light brown sugar and the chopped nuts. Sprinkle over the top of the cake batter. Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 35 minutes or until cake tests done. Remove cake from oven and pour topping over hot cake.
• To Make Topping: In a small saucepan combine the butter or margarine, the evaporated milk, the remaining 1/2 cup of the white sugar, and 1 teaspoon of the vanilla. Cook over medium low heat, stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved. Mixture will be thin. Pour over hot cake.

GRANDMOTHER'S POUND CAKE II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 3 - 8x4 inch loaf pans, then line with parchment paper.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Beat in the flour alternately with the milk, mixing just until incorporated.
• Pour batter evenly into prepared loaf pans. Bake in the preheated oven for 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean. After removing them from the oven, immediately loosen cake edges with a knife. Allow to cool in pans for 10 minutes, then remove from the pans. Strip off the parchment paper and cool completely on wire racks.

GRANDMA'S ORIGINAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degs. Grease a tube pan or bundt pan.
• In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg yolks and lemon rind.
• Sift together flour and baking powder and add to creamed mixture alternating with milk.
• In separate bowl, beat egg whites and salt until stiff. Mix some of whites into batter, and then fold batter into remaining whites.
• Pour into pan and bake for 30-45 mins, until it tests as done.

GRANNY'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• DO NOT PREHEAT THE OVEN.
• Mix butter and shortening until lightly mixed.
• Mix sugar in one cup at a time.
• Mix eggs in one at a time.
• Mix milk and flour in alternately.
• Grease bunt pan and pour in batter.
• Put your batter in a COLD oven.
• Bake at 300 degrees for 1 hour and 30 minutes, or till toothpick comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and then from pan.
• "Sweat" the cake, by wrapping it in wax paper and tinfoil, until it cools. This will make it moist. It won't be anywhere near as good if you don't do this.

GREAT-GRANDMA ELECTRA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Spray a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®) with cooking spray. Place oven rack on the lowest level.
• Beat sugar, butter, and cream cheese together until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating until smooth.
• Sift flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl and stir into the batter. Stir in vanilla extract. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 30 minutes.

BETTER THAN GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream together sugar, margarine and Crisco.
• Beat in eggs, one at a time.
• In a separate bowl, mix the flours together.
• Add flours to the cream mixture, alternating with the milk.
• Add the vanilla.
• Beat for 10 minutes, scraping down the bowl several times.
• Pour into greased and floured tube pan.
• Place in a COLD oven.
• Bake at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean. Note: Sometimes this cake has taken up to 2 hours to bake. It all depends on the oven. You don't want to raise the oven temperature because the crust won't form properly.
• Allow cake to cool in pan for 30 minutes and then run a butter knife around the edges before removing it from the pan.

MY GRANDMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• (I use self rising flour and it turns out as well. But my grandmother baked this for her children so its a very old recipe.) Cream butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at time.
• Mix vanilla with milk and add to creamed mixture.
• Mix real good,then use a wooded spoon and stir real good.
• Put in tube pan.
• Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• Remove from over and let cool.