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ByMilisa June 4, 2020March 21, 2024

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Million Dollar Pound Cake is a buttery and decadent dessert to serve for any occasion. It is perfectly delicious served plain or topped with whipped cream and fresh berries. Easy enough for any day of the week and a great dessert for celebrations, holidays and special occasions.

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A while back I was looking through my mom’s recipe binder and came across a clipping from the Rural Electric Arkansas magazine with the classic Million Dollar Pound Cake recipe, It’s a southern classic that literally taste’s like a million bucks!

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Why You Will Love this Million Dollar Pound Cake

Just a few pantry ingredients for a simple and delicious homemade cake.
This pound cake is rich and buttery with a dense crumb.
An easy recipe that can be made for any occasion and delicious enough for holidays.

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Ingredients Needed

Butter – I like to use salted butter, use your preference.
Granulated Sugar
Large Eggs
Almond Extract
Vanilla Extract
Milk
All Purpose Flour

How to Make Million Dollar Pound Cake

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Add butter to a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Gradually add in sugar with the mixer running.
Mix in eggs one at a time until incorporated.

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3. Next, add flour with the mixer on low, a bit at a time, alternating with milk. Mix until all combined.

4. Fold in vanilla and almond extracts.

Tips for Baking Pound Cake

Make sure to grease your bundt pan well and dust it with flour. This will ensure your cake doesn’t stick.
Smaller Bundt Pan: Fill the pan up to about an inch from the top and bake the remaining batter using a cupcake pan.
Bake on the middle oven rack so that the top doesn’t over brown.
Check your cake for doneness about 10 minutes before the cooking time is up. Oven temperatures can vary. Inserting a long toothpick or sharp knife near the center will come out clean when the cake is baked through.
Use a sharp knife to loosen the cake from the edges of the pan before removing.
Allow cake to cool completely for nice, clean slices.

Storage

Pound cake can be wrapped tight with plastic wrap and stored at room temperature up to three days. If refrigerated, it will keep up to about a week.

Freeze: You can also freeze pound cake by wrapping it in several layers of plastic wrap and placing in a freezer bag or wrapped in foil. It will keep about 6 months in the freezer. Thaw to room temperature before serving.

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Best Tools for Baking Pound Cake

Bundt Pan or Tube Pan: works best for this recipe. You could also split into two loaf pans.
Electric mixer: best to get the batter mixed to the lightest and fluffiest.
Slicone spatula: essential for scraping the batter into the pan.
Wire cooling rack: perfect for cooling cakes and cookies.
Serrated knife: great for getting those perfect slices.

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Add a Glaze

Million Dollar Pound Cake is delicious with or without a glaze. I usually just serve it with fresh berries and whipped cream. Add a simple powdered sugar glaze by mixing 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar with 1 tablespoon melted butter and 2 tablespoons of milk. Drizzle over cooled cake.

For a thick and rich glazed try this Amaretto Pound Cake. It’s rich and buttery with delicious Amaretto syrup poured over the top while it’s still warm.

Pound cake has always been one of my favorite desserts and this is probably my most favorite version. The buttery flavor really stands out and the texture of this cake is velvety and smooth with a crunchy crust. It’s one of the best desserts you can make for any occasion.

Million Dollar Pound Cake

Prep Time15 minutes mins

Cook Time1 hour hr 40 minutes mins

Total Time1 hour hr 55 minutes mins

Course: Cakes

Cuisine: American

Servings: 10 servings

Calories: 861kcal

Author: Milisa

Ingredients

1 pound of salted butter 4 sticks, room temperature
3 cups sugar
6 large eggs room temperature
4 cups all purpose flour
3/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
shortening or butter for greasing the pan
additional flour for flouring the pan
Whipped Cream and fresh fruit for serving optional

Instructions

Preheat oven to 300°.
Add softened butter to a large mixer bowl and beat at medium speed for 5 minutes. Gradually add in sugar while mixing and continue to mix until batter is fluffy and light in color.
Mix in eggs one at a time with the mixer running until all incorporated.
Add flour a bit at a time, alternating with milk and mix well.
Fold in vanilla and almond extracts.
Prepare 12-cup bundt or tube pan by greasing with shortening or butter and then dusting with flour.
Pour batter into pan and smooth evenly.
Bake on the center rack of the oven for 1 hour 30 minutes to 1 hour 40 minutes or until a sharp knife inserted into center comes out clean.
Remove from oven and allow cake to cool 10 minutes. Loosen edges of cake with a sharp knife and invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Serve plain or with whipped cream and fresh fruit if desired.

Notes

Store cooled cake wrapped tight with plastic wrap at room temperature up to 3 days or in refrigerator up to 7 days.

Freeze cake wrapped in several layers of plastic wrap and place in a freezer bag or a layer of foil up to 6 months.

If using a smaller bundt pan, fill cake pan up to about an inch from the top wih batter and bake the remaining batter in a cupcake pan.

Nutrition

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FAQs

Can you beat a pound cake too much? ›

Mistake: Overmixing The Batter

This will help to ensure that the dry and wet ingredients are evenly distributed throughout the batter. Mix just until blended after each addition. Overmixing the batter creates a tough, rubbery cake.

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Why is pound cake called pound cake? ›

The original recipe was essentially a cake that was made from a pound of flour, a pound of sugar, a pound of butter, and a pound of eggs. This is actually where the pound cake received it's name. Each ingredient added to the cake weighed one pound.

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Is it better to bake pound cake at 325 or 350? ›

"Think of the butter and the flour as ball bearings between the cake and the pan," says Saffitz. A steady 325-350 degrees is ideal when it comes to baking pound cake.

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What happens if you put too much baking powder in a pound cake? ›

Too much baking powder can cause the batter to be bitter tasting. It can also cause the batter to rise rapidly and then collapse. (i.e. The air bubbles in the batter grow too large and break causing the batter to fall.) Cakes will have a coarse, fragile crumb with a fallen center.

How do you keep a pound cake moist after baking? ›

The most common cake soak is simple syrup, equal parts sugar and water cooked until the sugar is dissolved. This added bit of liquid and sweetness help make the cake more moist, and stay moist longer.

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Is bleached or unbleached flour better for pound cake? ›

The Flour:

I prefer to use unbleached all-purpose flour when making pounds cakes but cake flour can be used as well. Cake flour will give the cake a fluffier, tender crumb though, which is not really classic for pound cakes.

How much should you beat a cake? ›

You can also mix cake batter by hand. Stir the ingredients to moisten and blend, then beat 150 strokes for every minute of beating time (i.e. 3 minutes equal 450 strokes). Shiny aluminum pans are best when you make a cake because they reflect heat away from the cake and produce a tender, light brown crust.