The lovely and classic pound cake is something we all remember from our childhood. A sheet cake made of a basic pound cake is rarely a miss, and it's easy to make.
Recipe for pound cake
The delightful and classic marble cake is something we all know from our childhood.
A sheet cake made from a pound cake rarely goes wrong and the cake is easy to make.
We have the recipe from the book: “Grigos hjemmebag“, written by Markus Grigo, who is known from being a judge on DR’s program: “The Great Danish Bake Off”.
A square baking pan with a 1.5-liter capacity is needed for this recipe.
Servings: people
Pound Cake
The lovely and classic pound cake is something we all remember from our childhood. A sheet cake made of a basic pound cake is rarely a miss, and it's easy to make.
Ingredients
Shortbread
- Butter Soft. To grease the baking pan
- Flour To grease the baking pan
- 250 gram Butter Room temperature
- 200 gram Powdered Sugar
- 50 gram Vanilla Sugar
- 5 pcs. Egg Room temperature
- 250 gram Wheat Flour Low in gluten
- 10 gram Baking Soda
- 1 pcs. Lemon Finely grated zest of 1 untreated lemon
Marble Cake
- Butter Soft. To grease the baking pan
- Wheat Flour To grease the baking pan
- 1 portion Dough pound cake batter - as above
- 30 gram Cocoa powder Approximately
- 50 gram Dark chocolate Chopped
Instructions
Pound Cake
- Grease the cake pan and dust it with flour.
- Shake off the excess flour.
- Whisk butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla sugar until white in a bowl.
- Add the eggs one at a time, stirring constantly.
- However, do not stir too much, so the batter does not curdle.
- Sift flour and baking powder together and sift it into the batter along with grated lemon zest.
- Pour the batter into the greased cake pan and bake in a preheated oven at 175 degrees Celsius (347 degrees Fahrenheit) (convection) for about 1 hour.
- Let the cake rest in the pan for about 5 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool.
Marble Cake
- Grease the cake pan and dust it with flour.
- Shake off the excess flour.
- Make the pound cake batter as above and divide it into three portions.
- Mix one portion of the batter with cocoa powder and chopped chocolate.
- Pour one portion of the light batter into the cake pan
- Pour the dark batter on top and swirl a little with a spoon to make streaks.
- Finish with the other portion of light batter
- Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 175 degrees Celsius (347 degrees Fahrenheit) (convection) for about 1 hour.
- Let the cake rest in the pan for about 5 minutes before turning it out onto a wire rack to cool.