“Southern five flavor pound cake recipe! Made from scratch and full of flavor with a moist, fluffy crumb!”
Watch me make this five flavor pound cake from start to finish!
My husband has declared this five flavor pound cake one of his favs! That’s saying a lot because I make A LOT of pound cakes around here! I grew up with a homemade pound cake every single week of my LIFE! No kidding, I think my grandmother had a secret obsession with pound cakes!
She laughs and says “no I didn’t make a pound cake every week!” when we tease her about it now, but y’all, trust, she did!! Everybody knew that it didn’t matter when they came over, a fresh, homemade pound cake would always be waiting under that cake cover!
Well I think her pound cake addiction is slowly rubbing off on me! I’ve made quite a few pound cake here on Divas Can Cook! You can check out a few below!
But today it’s all about the five flavor pound cake!! It’s been a LOOOONG time since I’ve made a five flavor pound cake and I almost forgot just how heavenly this cake is! Mercy, it’s good guys!!!
Have you ever heard of a five flavor pound cake? What about 7-flavor pound cake? I’ve even heard of 10-flavor pound cake which to me I think is a bit too much but hey, whatever yanks your chain!
A five flavor pound cake uses 5 different extracts to create one delicious pound cake! I prefer using vanilla, butter, rum, lemon and coconut extracts! These 5-flavors mesh so well together, whoddothunkit!!! But I’ve seen a few that replaces the rum extract with almond extract and the lemon extract with orange extract.
This five flavor pound cake is so moist, flavorful, dense yet fluffy (yes that’s possible). It’s incredible and have I ever mentioned how beautiful pound cake freezes? I remember when I was pregnant with Isaac I stocked the freezer with several pound cakes because I knew I wouldn’t have much time to bake with a new baby. I was so glad I did!
Five Flavor Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1/2 cup butter-flavored shortening
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 5 eggs room temperature
- 3 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup half n half
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon butter extract
- 1/2 teaspoon rum extract Can add more if you really like rum flavor. I'm not a huge fan
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1 teaspoon coconut extract
FIVE FLAVOR GLAZE
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar sifted
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon butter extract
- 1/2 teaspoon rum extract
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
- 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract
- 1/2 teaspoon milk may need more
Instructions
- Grease and flour a bundt pan and set aside.
- Preheat oven to 325 F.
- In a large bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar.
- Add in eggs, one at a time, being sure to mix thoroughly after each egg. Set aside.
- In a medium-sized bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
- Gradually mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients while alternating with the half n half and buttermilk. (Batter should be fluffy when done mixing)
- Mix in extracts.
- Spoon batter evenly into prepared pan.
- Bake for 1 hour and 15-20 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let cake cool until pan is warm to the touch.
- Remove cake from pan and allow to finish cooling on cooling rack.
- When cake is completely cooled, drizzle on the glaze if using.
- To make the glaze, combine powdered sugar, extract and 1/2 teaspoon of milk.
Video
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For the glaze I like using lime juice instead of the milk. Tastes much better! Also goes great with some ice cream or rainbow sherbet.
Wonderful cake, wonderful recipe!
I absolutely love this recipe! The cake is very moist and delicious ! Thank you for sharing! I bake this cake for family gatherings
This was my first time making pound cake and it did NOT disappoint! I made it for my mom and she absolutely loved it. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the glaze (I was thinking I’d stick with just one flavor next time) but she liked it and that’s all that matters :-).
The cake had a great taste and was quite moist. I didn’t have half and half or buttermilk so I just used regular whole fat cow milk and added lemon juice to half of it (to make makeshift buttermilk). Aside from that, I pretty much followed the recipe as written.
I love this recipe! My cake turns out great every time.
I made this cake as a trail cake. My husband and I could not believe how moist and delicious this was!!! I made this cake 2 or three Sundays in a row!!! I love this recipe Monique you never let me down!!! I can’t wait for your cookbook!!!
Thank you Monique!
This is the cake that my family and friends request for me to make, the 5 flavors blend well together and frankly, they are what makes the cake stand out from other boring vanilla pound cakes. To each his own but this recipe is a winner!
The texture of the cake was perfect but the combination of all the flavors was too much for me. I will definitely keep the recipe but next time just do vanilla as previously suggested. Thank you for the recipe.
I’m gonna try this cake… but what kind of flour, cake four
Or self rising or all purpose… always be pacific for your fans
I’ve made this cake a few times and I’ve used unbleached all purpose flour, works fine!
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Finally! A perfect cake. Super moist and super dense! I’ve tried and altered so many recipes trying to achieve exactly what this cake offers. Thank you so much for sharing!
My cake turned out amazing!!! Thanks for posting!!!!!
This recipe is outstanding! I made it for a family dinner and even the “non-cake” people loved it! I agree with you, Monique, on the combination of extract flavors, as it gives the cake a truly unique and delicious flavor. The cake was super moist and tender. The glaze was perfection! So glad I have found your blog. I have stumbled onto a gold mine of great recipes~!
I made this cake. The flavoring was overwhelming and made me physically sick after eating it. The texture of the cake was nice, and it was delicious going down, but the mixture of artificial flavors was 4 too many. I will retry this recipe with just vanilla. Also made a lot of batter and spilled over. My home did smell delightful, but i had to trash it.
Thank you for your honest comment. I’m gonna do vanilla only as well.
“The flavoring was overwhelming and made me physically sick after eating it. The texture of the cake was nice, and it was delicious going down”…………… seriously . How can it be overwhelming BUT delicious going down.
Don’t blame believe s the cake that’s mad u physically ill.
I have made this several times and it is a fantastic recipe! Do you have suggestions of how to make a pan of mini pound cakes? I have the pan that looks like a cupcake pan but is for 24 mini pound cakes…not sure how long to cook? Thanks in advance!!!
Best cake my family have eaten in a very long time.
Let me just say “AMAZING”! The receipe was easy to follow and my pound cake came out rich, moist, flavorful and delicious! I’ve made 3 pound cake this month so far. I must say that prior to finding this recipe I was not a Baker at all…that’s definitely not my strong Suite. But, now you can’t tell me other wise. I’ve definitely found my niche. Thanks Monique!
Are you using plain or self rising flour?
Hi there,
Should I use self-rising flour or regular flour?
Thank you,
I need help. I made your Five Flavor Pound Cake recently. When I removed it from the over it looked picture perfect. While cooling it fell on one side. When it was cut there were areas in the center that maybe were not baked as well as it should have been? ?. I’m not sure what happened. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for your recipes.
Hmmm…could have been overbeating the wet mixture if had gluey streaks. Not sure what would cause it to fall on one side. So sorry that happened!
Experienced the same issue. I split the batter into two pans and adjusted the cooking time slightly. Fixed the issue.
I would suggest adjusting cooking temperature and insure batter is evenly distributed in pan. Also do not open oven door while cooking. Set timer 1hr, 15 min. Also look at the type of pan your using. This is a heavy cake, so bundt pan should be able to accommodate weight
I made a similar recipe x12 for my daughter’s wedding cake except that I did not use this recipe that used half and half or buttermilk. Does the extra expense make a big difference?
I would like the recipe for a pound cake that take 10 eggs, 1 lb of butter . I can’t remberer all the rest but it call for cream of tartar. The flour and sugar is also 1lb It is bake at a low temperturee
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What type of flour do you use? All purpose?
The first time I made the 7 flavor pound cake recipe, it was a HUGE hit! It was so moist and all the flavors do blend so well together. Now it is the most preferred and requested cake. I cannot wait to try some of your other recipes.
I have not tried your recipes yet. But I’m real soon!!!! You have gotten great feedback about your recipes. I can’t want. KEEP SHARING YOUR AWESOME RECEIPES WITH THE WORLD GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!
Delicious bursting with flavor luv this recipe.
Thank you for sharing !
I love this recipe. Made this cake for the first time and it is way better than my grandmother’s recipe!
I’ve made this recipe for a couple of years with much success. I usually use milk and I’m intrigued to use the half and half and buttermilk instead. What I will suggest is to add the extracts to the milk mixture rather than in their own. The liquid incorporates the flavors throughout the batter better than adding them separately, just my opinion. But I cannot wait to try this recipe, I’ve tried several from this site and they all are fantastic! Happy Baking everyone!
Can I bake this in a loaf pan? I have a 1.5 lb loaf pan
I made this cake a couple of times right before thanksgiving and they came out PERFECTLY the texture was superb! but for some reason now they’re cracking really bad while baking in the oven and collapsing when I take it out the oven. HELP!!!! Somebody
Is this self rising flour?
Thank you been looking for this my Mother used to make it. Blessing
I just made this cake and I took a little of the batter and made cupcakes. Cupcakes were delicious. I am sending the cake to my Godmother for her birthday and since this was the first time I did this cake, I had to know if it was going to be good. I used raw sugar instead of the granulated sugar and unbleached flour, but still pleased with the cupcakes. Hope my Godmother will like the cake. Will be trying more of your recipes.
I love love love everything you prepare. I follow your recipes to the T. And they come out great. I recently made the 7 flavor pound cake and when i shared it with my friends they thought i bought it from a store lol. I don’t know if that was a complement or not. Lol. But it came out great. Thanks for sharing
Hello, I am just obsessed with all of your poundcake recipes and watch them on repeat like bedtime stories. ????
I was wondering what sort of bunt pan you used for your cakes? (Like is it especially big or do you have a favourite brand?)
I AM A BAKER NOW BECAUSE OF YOU….. I LOVE THIS CAKE AND MY FAMILY ASK FOR IT ALL THE TIME….THANKS
I am usually not one to leave comments, but this cake was so flavorful and moist that I just had to leave a comment. I didn’t make the glaze for the cake because it really doesn’t need it. It is awesome all by itself!
This one of favorite cakes. My oldest sister was a baker. She could foot her in this ???? cake. I have find memories of her.
This is a great pound cake recipe. I absolutely loved the texture of this cake. I did find the coconut extract to be a tad bit overpowering, however. I also have to agree with your husband about the glaze. I tasted it before putting it on the pound cake and it was not a pleasant taste so I omitted it altogether.
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My mother was known for her pound cake. So I know what a homemade pound cake should taste like. She used the cold oven method with 6 eggs and she used a an old school mixer. I have tried to mimic her pound cake a time or two, but failed. I stopped trying because I was intimidated. I followed your recipe to the letter except I switched out the rum for a teaspoon of almond extract. This cake turned out very good, so good that I am sharing it with family.
This recipe looks delicious! But what is half and half?
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Made this Southern Five Flavor Pound Cake for Christmas and again for a work function and it was a TOTAL crowd pleaser!!! EVERYONE loved it especially the “crust”. That was a pleasant surprise!! I have been asked by several co workers and family members to make them one for their home. The glaze was an AWESOME addition as well. A little flavor punch for the taste buds. This will definitely be a staple in the desert section of my recipe index!! Thanks for sharing!!
I made this cake today , I love this recipe this was my
Second cake made from scratch.. Thank you so much
For making it so easy ????
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.
I’ve never baked in all my 32 yrs. This pound cake was my first time EVER baking and it turned out perfect!!!
This pound cake is delicious and I will be making it again… Soon.
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe.
I’ve never baked in all my 32 yrs. This pound cake was my time EVER baking and it turned out perfect!!!
This pound cake is delicious and I will be making it again… Soon.
Making this cake as Christmas dessert for my neighbors I hope they love it as much as I did! Thanks for the recipe diva!
I made this cake for Thanksgiving and it was so good that my fiance’s mother asked me to make it again for her birthday. It was a huge hit! Thanks for sharing! Delish!
I made this cake last year and it was wonderful. It is now the Christmas cake for sure.
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe .
Hello. I been trying your pound cake recipes but for some reason it do not come out right. I like my pound cake a little fluffy and I remember adding baking soda and not baking powder. Someone told me that soda and powder lose strength after opening the box so maybe the strengths was weak, would this be true? I thought that I should add soda when using acidic ingredients but u didn’t in the video why is that? When to use soda and when to use powder?
On my list for Xmas. Man oh man I cannot wait. I just love your recipes. Thanks so much for sharing!
I made this pound cake last week for my family, all older than my 40 years on this earth, and they loved it. The cake remained crispy on top and moist inside until the last piece. We didn’t grow up with glaze on pound cake so even though I planned on giving it a try the cake was so good I completely forgot about it. This will go into my archives for sure. Thanks for sharing!
I made the 7 up cake for my wife’s birthday on Dec 11th and it was delicious. Thank you so much for sharing your recipes with the world. You have a wonderful website and phenomenal recipes. Please keep up the great work.
I’m addicted to your pound cakes! LOL… THAT DON’T MAKE NO SENSE ,NOW!!! ????… I getting ready to make the 7up pound cake. LORD JESUS, THAT’S A WINNER INDEED!
Thx for sharing with us all of your delicious recipes. We love yooooouuuu!!!
I am waving the white flag… your pound cake is better than mine. Alas…number two will have to do…lol!
I loved this cake. I made it Friday between my family & coworkers its already gone. Thank you for the recipe & video.
Were you on T>D> Jakes show on N0v. 27th 2016 with this recipe. I hope so. I wanted that recipe for that cake and been searching since then. So you put this 5 glaze’s in the cake or is it just a glaze.
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Phyl
This pound cake recipe is absolutely delicious! It is truly moist and great served warmed or cold! I made this for my family for thanksgiving. I have been requested by someone I know to make them one for their family! Thanks for this great recipe!
I made this cake last night and shared with my coworkers. OMG!!! It was a big hit. Everyone loved it. One of my coworkers want me to make her one for an event. Thank you so much for sharing your recipes. I have tried other recipes and they have all been excellent.
Can I use cake flour instead if flour in the 5 flavor pound cake
Cake sounds amazing. Can you create a scrumptious chai latte?