Heavenly Whipping Cream Pound Cake
One of my favorite pound cakes has to be whipping cream pound cake. I’m a sucker for that moist, tender, velvety texture although some would argue that this is the very thing that disqualifies it from being a true pound cake.
Never had a whipping cream pound cake before? Chances are you may have and probably just thought it was a really moist and light classic poundcake. It’s pretty much made the same way as a poundcake with the same basic ingredients but with heavy whipping cream instead of milk. The heavy whipping cream creates a very light, soft, tight crumb and makes the cake really moist.
The taste is pretty much like a classic pound cake as well, depending on the extracts you use. I always go with vanilla & almond extract or vanilla and butter extract with a bit of lemon extract. If you’re feeling creative I’ve read (never tried) that you can replace half of the heavy whipping cream with flavored coffee creamer. I plan on trying this in the fall time when all of those yummy limited-time flavored coffee creamers come out. I’ll report back.
I actually prefer to use slices of whipping cream poundcake for my strawberry shortcakes over sponge cake.
Watch me make this whipping cream pound cake from start to finish!
Get the Recipe: Moist Whipping Cream Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 3 sticks, 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened
- 3 cups white sugar
- 6 eggs, room temperature
- 3 cups cake flour, sifted
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 -1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
Instructions
- In a large bowl cream the butter with the sugar until well combined (about 5 minutes)
- Add the eggs one at a time and mix completely after each egg.
- Alternate adding the flour and heavy whipping cream, mixing thoroughly after each addition.
- Stir in the extracts.
- Grease and flour a 9.5 bundt pan.
- Spoon the batter into the pan and jiggly the pan to even out the batter when done.
- Place into a cold oven on the middle rack and turn the oven to 325.
- Bake for 1 hour and 20-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
- Let cake cool in the pan for a fe minutes before removing to finish cooling on a cooling rack.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Notes
Hey Mo! I wanted to know did you grease your pan with butter or butter flavored crisco or something else?
Hi! I too have tried a ton of your cakes and LOVE all of them! This recipe is awesome as well. Thanks so much for sharing!! The one cake recipe I struggle with is a good ole fashioned yellow/vanilla cake! Do you have any suggestions on a jaw dropping recipe for this as well? Thanks again!
I have tried several of your recipes. They are awesome. They are usually my starting point then I make my own modifications. I used the pound cake recipe and create a key lime pound cake. I worked out very well. Thank you for sharing. I have completely enjoyed using them.
Yummy. How did you incorporate the Key Limes?
I got mine in the oven now. Can’t wait!!!! Thanks Monique.
hey
how can i substitute cake flour with all purpose flour in this recipe?
A reliable replacement for cake flour when you only have all-purpose flour is to place in a 1-cup measuring cup:
2 tablespoons corn starch and fill the rest of the cup with all-purpose flour (6 tablespoons all-purpose flour).
For every one cup of all purpose flour take away two tablespoons of flour from that one cup. Add in (basically replacing the two tablespoons) two tablespoons of cornstarch sift together and you now have cake flour 🙂
Made this cake yesterday!! Delicious!! Thanks, Monique!!