285 pound cake recipes

Lemon pound cake using cake mix and a full cup of lemon curd for intense citrus flavor, studded with walnuts and topped with fresh lemon glaze. Just 5 ingredients.

Classic butter pound cake: rich, tender, golden loaf made the proper old-fashioned way with butter, sugar, eggs, flour and vanilla. Just five ingredients and a long, careful cream.

Pound cake slices draped in a cloud-light mascarpone sauce with brandy, whipped egg whites, and fresh berries. An Italian-style dessert that looks fancy but takes 20 minutes.

White Lily pound cake bakes a classic Southern butter-and-shortening pound cake with vanilla and almond extracts in soft White Lily flour. A Southern grandmother's pound cake recipe.

A rich pound cake baked in a lamb-shaped mold with bourbon, almond extract, and chopped pecans. Eight eggs and a full pound of butter make it dense, golden, and celebration-worthy.

Old-fashioned buttermilk pound cake with butter, shortening, and five eggs for a dense, velvety crumb. Baked in a tube pan with a tender tang from real buttermilk.

Buttery pound cake soaked in a homemade liqueur syrup. Choose your favorite spirit: rum, amaretto, hazelnut, orange, or raspberry. Stores up to 6 months frozen.

Peanut butter Bundt pound cake glazed with semi-sweet chocolate ganache. A dense buttery pound cake that bakes from a cold-oven start, then gets enrobed in glossy chocolate.

Grand Marnier pound cake studded with mini chocolate chips and brushed with a warm orange-liqueur syrup. A buttery bundt with a tender crumb and a citrus-soaked crust that keeps the cake moist for days.

Red velvet pound cake baked low and slow in a tube pan with cocoa, shortening, and seven eggs for a dense, velvety crumb. Topped with cream cheese icing.

Old-fashioned walnut pound cake started in a cold oven for a tall, even crumb. Buttery vanilla base studded with finely chopped walnuts, baked in a tube pan.

Gather round pound cake: a moist butterscotch-coffee bundt cake with melted butterscotch chips and instant coffee in the batter. The deep amber pound cake that smells like a coffee shop bakery.

Streusel pound cake baked in a slow cooker with a brown sugar, cinnamon, and nut streusel layered through the center and on top. An easy crockpot cake with a coffee cake twist.

Rich mahogany chocolate pound cake with cocoa, sour cream, and both white and brown sugar, baked in a bundt pan. Dense, moist, and deeply chocolatey with an optional quick chocolate sauce.

Old-fashioned pound cake with shortening, six eggs, and no leavening. Vanilla and almond extract give this dense, tender tube cake its signature flavor.

Cream cheese pound cake folds half a pound of cream cheese into a classic butter-and-sugar pound cake batter for a tender, dense crumb with subtle tang. Almond and vanilla extracts deepen the flavor.