Home » Simple Vanilla Pound Cake

Simple Vanilla Pound Cake

Written by Published on Updated on May 21, 2019 in Dessert

Pound Cakes are I think the easiest of all cakes to make.  The basic and most important step is to have the butter or margarine and eggs at room temperature.   Toss ingredients into a large bowl and mix. So simple and yet so good!!! 🙂  I added icing just to make it look a bit nicer…:)

SIMPLE VANILLA POUND CAKE

Print Recipe Pin Recipe

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 cup Butter unsalted or Margarine unsalted
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract or Vanilla Powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Salt

Instructions
 

  • Butter or margarine and eggs should be room temperature…so start by beating the butter and slowly add in the sugar. While beating slowly add in one egg at a time, add flour, salt and continue beating.
  • Lastly, add in the Vanilla extract or power and combine.
  • I used my bundt cake form for this recipe…Bake at 180 degrees for 25 minutes and until golden brown. 🙂 When the cake has cooled, top with a lovely Vanilla icing…my is store bought, was not able to find powdered sugar to make the icing I usually make for this cake.

Tags

Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

33 Comments

  1. Megala
    November 26, 2017 at 10:28 am  ·  Reply

    Beautiful cake ! This no-fail cake recipe is quick to prepare with a few steps and basic ingredients !!

  2. jyo
    November 26, 2017 at 10:46 am  ·  Reply

    Love these quick fix cakes…simple yet STUNNER cakes…looks amazing ✌✌

  3. cookwithreena
    November 26, 2017 at 10:49 am  ·  Reply

    It is best tea time cake. Icing on the cake has made it look delicious!!!

  4. mistimaan
    November 26, 2017 at 4:52 pm  ·  Reply

    Loved your yummy recipe 🙂

  5. dtills
    November 26, 2017 at 4:57 pm  ·  Reply

    This looks great Sophie! And so light, for a pound cake 🙂

  6. juliehcares
    November 26, 2017 at 5:32 pm  ·  Reply

    That is easy and tasty!!!

  7. Plantsandbeyond
    November 26, 2017 at 5:45 pm  ·  Reply

    Oh my Goodness, Sophie. It looks soooo goood

  8. Margaret from soulfood101blog
    November 26, 2017 at 7:33 pm  ·  Reply

    Sophie, can I use this with salted butter and just leave out the 1/2 teaspoon of salt?

  9. Karin, theaustriandish
    November 26, 2017 at 9:30 pm  ·  Reply

    Beautiful cake – looks delicious 🙂 Now I know what you meant when you wrote we both have a post about bundt cake today 🙂 they could be twins, yours with icing, mine with icing sugar 🙂

  10. a little Swiss, a little Canadian
    November 27, 2017 at 2:06 am  ·  Reply

    That looks so pretty! Love simple recipes!😋😍

  11. MaBeautility
    November 27, 2017 at 4:29 pm  ·  Reply

    Yumyumyum❤❤❤❤

  12. Vero and Canito in the kitchen
    November 28, 2017 at 11:58 am  ·  Reply

    I love simple recipes! This one is great 🙂

  13. chefkreso
    November 28, 2017 at 12:01 pm  ·  Reply

    Simple and tasty, just the recipe to make on a busy workday!

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.