15 Timeless Pound Cake Recipes From Chocolate Marble to Lemon. From simple loaves to pretty bundts, it's hard to deny the universal appeal of a buttery, fine-crumbed, not-too-sweet pound cake.

The secret to your best-ever pound cake involves skipping a crucial step: preheating the oven before the cake goes in. Although preheating usually begins the baking process, heating the oven once ...

Origins of butter cake can be found in the English pound cake – a rich treat calling for equal measurements of butter, sugar, eggs and flour. Then came the ubiquitous butter cake.

Directions. In a small bowl, whisk flour and baking soda together and set aside. Oil and flour a 10” tube pan and set aside. Preheat oven to 325 fahrenheit.

Like British pound cake, coffee cake also shares 1700s European roots, but with origins in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.