Southerners love pound cake because it is so simple but always so perfect.

These tall, proud cakes are at once dense and heavy while also being buttery and soft.

This pound cake recipe has the perfect amount of density as well as the perfect amount of butter flavor.

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Its moist, tender, but also the just-right consistency for a pound cake.

It also only calls for a handful of ingredients, and no special baking skills are needed.

Does that make it the perfect cake?

Southern Living Pound Cake ingredients

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Does a Pound Cake Have a Pound of Butter and a Pound of Flour?

it’s possible for you to absolutely make your cake that way still; it will in fact work.

Homemade Pound Cake Ingredients

A good pound cake recipe calls for minimal ingredients.

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How To Make Pound Cake

Grab your tube pan.

What Is the Secret to a Good Pound Cake?

Also, making sure you cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy will yield the best results.

Southern Living Pound Cake preparing the pan with grease and flour

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you’re able to also freeze pound cake up to 3 months.

But you’re free to also alter this recipe slightly subtle upgrades.

Ingredients

2 cups (1lb.

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Generously grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan with additional butter and flour.

Shake out excess flour; set pan aside.

Spoon batter into pan:

Spoon batter into prepared pan, spreading into an even layer.

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Remove pan from oven, place on a wire rack; let cool 10 minutes.

Run a butter knife around sides of pan to release cake from pan.

Place a wire rack over top of pan, and invert cake onto wire rack.

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Flip cake right side up.

Let cool completely on wire rack, 1 hour, 30 minutes to 2 hours.

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Southern Living Pound Cake batter fully prepared

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