{"id":169,"date":"2009-04-14T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2021-09-08T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:10:29","slug":"pound-cake-reloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/14\/pound-cake-reloaded\/","title":{"rendered":"Pound Cake Reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I tried making pound cake again, this time with success!  I even brought it in to the Search Engine that Starts With a G to get comments from my coworkers, and none of them died (that I know of) and some of them even liked it (as reported on an anonymous form)!  Even more of a success!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I did differently.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/poundcake-2-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/poundcake-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"pound cake 2.0\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First, I changed the recipe.  This time, I adapted one from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Im-Just-Here-More-Food\/dp\/1584793414\">I&#8217;m Just Here for More Food<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alton_Brown\">Alton Brown<\/a>, a chef well known for his excellent, scientifically-based cooking.  After cross-referencing against the Joy of Cooking, I felt safe leaving out the vanilla on the suspicion that last time&#8217;s funny flavor wasn&#8217;t just the Splenda but my fairly old vanilla flavoring (which I found was labeled &#8220;bourbon vanilla&#8221; which made me even more suspicious.)  This left the recipe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three cups of allpurpose flour<\/li>\n<li>    Three large eggs<\/li>\n<li>    Two cups of sugar<\/li>\n<li>    One cup of buttermilk<\/li>\n<li>    One half pound of butter<\/li>\n<li>    One half teaspoon of salt<\/li>\n<li>    One half teaspoon of baking powder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preparation was much easier this time with a $25 handheld motorized mixer from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frys.com\/\">Fry&#8217;s<br \/> Electronics<\/a>.  I used a few tricks this time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow butter to warm to room temperature by itself &#8211; no heating in the microwave<\/li>\n<li>Mix the butter and sugar and blend until fluffy with no sugar grains visible in the mix<\/li>\n<li>Beat egg yolks and whites together and mix with butter and sugar blend in 3 batches<\/li>\n<li>Sift all the dry goods (salt, baking powder, flour) together 3 times<\/li>\n<li>Alternate adding the dry goods and buttermilk to the mix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, I was more careful flouring the pan to prevent sticking.  As before, the oven was preheated to 325, baking was 1 hour, and the cake was allowed to sit a bit before being taken out of the pan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/poundcake-2-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/poundcake-2-3.jpg\" alt=\"pound cake 2.0\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Results: Yum.  The texture was light and flaky, on the edge of being too flaky.  The flavor was good, though slightly bland &#8211; it could have used more vanilla.  The crust had a good texture, but it could have been a bit darker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/poundcake-2-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/poundcake-2-4.jpg\" alt=\"pound cake 2.0\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a good cake, but I got even better feedback from my coworkers and from myself.  The cake needed vanilla, a slightly better mixing, and a slightly better cooling procedure.  Nevertheless, the pound cake served its desired function:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/poundcake-2-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/poundcake-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"pound cake 2.0\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will follow up soon with the details on how I tweaked the recipe until it was &#8220;perfect&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I tried making pound cake again, this time with success! 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