The secret here is that there is no secret: It’s the classic “pound” cake with equal weights of butter, sugar, eggs and flour. Back in the day of easy grocery runs and well-stocked kitchens, I tested ...

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 the ...

If there is one recipe to save forever, this is the one. These days everyone is claiming their recipe is worth a million dollars (we've got a few too), but this is the original pound cake that started ...

This orange pound cake is a tender, buttery loaf infused with fresh orange zest and juice, then finished with a simple c ...

It’s moist. It’s sweet. It’s the perfect thing to eat alongside a steamy mug of tea or hot chocolate. It’s pound cake! Pound cake is delicious year-round, but it’s an especially versatile cake for the ...

Pound cakes got their name because they were once made with a pound each of flour, butter, sugar and eggs. (Really, they should have been called four-pound cakes!) But even as recipes have adapted and ...

Q: I am looking for a pound cake recipe I originally got from my Grandma Rowe, who was the best baker in our family. She even won a newspaper recipe contest for her Jack Horner coffee cake in the ...