My Secret Recipe for Pound Cake
- 100 grams Cake flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 70 grams Sugar
- 2 Egg
- 10 grams Honey
- 50 grams Milk
- 20 grams Vegetable oil
- 1 dash Vanilla essence
- Put the dry ingredients in a heat resistant bowl, and stir with a whisk.
- Break up any lumps and mix everything up thoroughly.
- By doing this, you don't need to sift the dry ingredients.
- Preheat the oven to 170C.
- Measure the milk and oil into a small saucepan.
- Crack the eggs into a bowl, remove the chalaza, and beat well.
- Line a pound cake pan with a liner or parchment paper.
- Add the beaten eggs and honey in the center of the dry ingredients, and stir only the center with a whisk.
- Gradually mix in the flour from the outside edges, and mix altogether.
- Heat the milk and oil in the saucepan.
- When it comes to a boil, turn off the heat.
- Pour half of it into the batter and mix.
- Then pour in the rest of the mixture and mix well.
- Add the vanilla essence, mix, and pour the batter into the pound cake pan.
- Gently drop the pan from a height of 4-5 cm onto a work surface a few times to remove air bubbles, and put it on a baking tray.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 170C for 28 minutes.
- After 9-10 minutes, take the cake out from the oven, and make a vertical slit in the center.
- Put the cake back into the oven, and keep baking.
- Insert a toothpick, and if it comes out clean, it's done!
- Take the cake out from the oven, and gently tap the pan onto the work surface once to remove air.
- Place the cake pan on a cooling rack, and cover the cake with cling film over the pan.
- When the pan is cool enough to touch, remove the cake, wrap with cling film, and let it cool at room temperature.
- Once it's cooled, it's done!
- Cut into pieces, and enjoy!
- If you want to store the cake, cut the cake into slices and cover each piece with cling film.
- If it's possible, after cooling the cake at room temperature, let it sit in the fridge for a whole day to make it more moist and it will be even tastier.
- Bring it to room temperature before eating.
- I bought the pound cake pan (metal) and a liner from a 100 yen shop.
- Bring the eggs to room temperature before use.
- Wait until the oven is preheated before you do Step 4 to Step 6, and bake the cake straight away!
- The baking time is set to 28 minutes, but check with a toothpick around 26 minutes.
- If it comes out clean, it's OK to finish baking.
- Addendum: This cake is moderately sweet with 60 g sugar.
- It may be as sweet as normal cakes with 70 g sugar.
- Adjust the amount of sugar to taste!
- Check this recipe for Moist Banana Caketo use up fully ripe bananas.
flour, baking powder, sugar, egg, honey, milk, vegetable oil, vanilla essence
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/151663-my-secret-recipe-for-pound-cake (may not work)