POUND CAKE

Pound Cake 

is baked with 3 main ingredients in equal weight,
i.e one pound each of  flour, sugar & butter

These days people are more health conscious,
I have reduced the amount of sugar used
in the recipe below:

Pound Cake

125g salted butter

90g caster sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

2 large eggs,AA

125g Self raising flour or (cake flour+1 tsp baking powder)

2-4 Tbsp fresh milk

Method:

1) cream butter and sugar until fluffy

2) add vanilla extract

3) add eggs, one at a time until well mixed

4) fold in flour, adjust batter to dropping consistency with fresh milk

5) pour into a lined bread pan

5) bake in preheated oven 175'C for 40-50min until skewer inserted comes out clean

Variation:

1. Chocolate Pound Cake:

    - replace 18g self raising flour with cocoa powder

2. Chocolate rice can be added to batter

Notes:
1) To avoid cracking & hard crust, do not fill more than 1/2 the height of pan
2) Gluten is produced if batter is over-mix, this cause domed top
3) Do not use black pan as it cause over-browning of side & bottom of cake