The Best Pound Cake Recipe I’ve ever tried!  This all-butter loaf is moist as can be, full of rich flavor, and crowned with crackly, crumbly crust.  You’ll love it topped with juicy Gingered Brown Butter Peaches!

Best Pound Cake Recipe I've ever tried!  There's no chemical leaveners so all you taste is the butter and eggs.  Those gingered brown butter peaches take it totally over the top!

Ok- confession time: I’m coming off a real bad case of blogger burnout.

Maybe you’ve noticed I haven’t been real present on Instagram.  The ol’ Facebook page hasn’t been getting a lot of love either.  Luckily summertime is all about easy no-bake recipes, or else I may not have even been posting anything at all.

The culprit was blogger burnout.  It happens!  I think my blogger peeps can back me up when I say that sometimes it’s just a part of the job.  You go and go and go and go, and then suddenly, you just want to crawl into a hole and hide.

So that’s just what I did, more or less.  It’s been nice, getting around to some house projects that have been “on the list” for far too long.  I’m all caught up on laundry too!  And I even took some time to just lay on my sofa and watch tv.  Haven’t done that in I don’t know how long.

One of the other things that really helped me to get over the burnout was what my friend Jocelyn calls “soul baking.”  Baking just for the love of baking.  No trying to come up with a totally unique recipe based on keywords and SEO tricks, no photo shoots, no blathering on about it for 500+ words and NO POSTING IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.  Just cracking open a beloved cookbook and simply following the steps.  Then serving it to your family while it’s fresh and warm, and relishing every morsel.

Best Pound Cake Recipe I've ever tried!  There's no chemical leaveners so all you taste is the butter and eggs.  Those gingered brown butter peaches take it totally over the top!

One warm sunny day, I wanted pound cake.  Good, old-fashioned, all-butter pound cake like my grandma made.  With fresh summer fruit and whipped cream.  Bliss!

I turned to one of my favorite resources, The New Best Recipe cookbook.  This is a great cookbook for basic, tried and true recipes.  I made the pound cake, and it was everything I had wished for and more.  I decided right then and there that when I was fully recovered from my burnout bout, I would be sharing the recipe.

So I made it again over the weekend.  But this time it didn’t turn out quite the same.  It was a little flat, and I had loved that towering loaf with the craggly-crunchy cake top.  What did I do wrong?  Did I miss a step?  Did I not quite follow the directions exactly the first time?  Did I f4rt around too long trying to nail this sweet in-process action shot?

Best Pound Cake Recipe I've ever tried!  There's no chemical leaveners so all you taste is the butter and eggs.  Those gingered brown butter peaches take it totally over the top!

I do not know, but I decided to make it once again, this time falling back on some of my own hard-earned baking knowledge.  So this recipe is slightly different than the one from the book, but I think you will love the results.  The crumb is fine as can be and almost creamy, and because there are no chemical leaveners of any kind, the flavor is pure butter and eggs.  I’ve spiked it with my favorite vanilla bean paste, and we’re serving it sliced and topped with juicy brown butter gingered peaches.

Best Pound Cake Recipe I've ever tried!  There's no chemical leaveners so all you taste is the butter and eggs.  Those gingered brown butter peaches take it totally over the top!

I’m telling you- it’ll cure what ails ya!

I thank my best kitchen tools for giving me awesome results when I bake.  Here are some of the essentials I used to create this recipe:

…and I can’t say enough great things about my new oven.  This thing is not just a pretty face- it’s truly a workhorse in the kitchen!

Best Pound Cake Recipe I've ever tried!  There's no chemical leaveners so all you taste is the butter and eggs.  Those gingered brown butter peaches take it totally over the top!

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Best Pound Cake Recipe, with Gingered Brown Butter Peaches

Servings: 10 servings
Prep Time: 35 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 55 minutes
The Best Pound Cake Recipe I've ever tried! This all-butter loaf is moist as can be, full of rich flavor, and crowned with crackly, crumbly crust. You'll love it topped with juicy Gingered Brown Butter Peaches!

Ingredients

For the Pound Cake

  • 1 cup unsalted butter, (2 sticks), softened but still slightly cool
  • 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
  • 3 large eggs, (at room temperature)
  • 3 large egg yolks, (at room temperature)
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste, (extract may be substituted)
  • 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 1/2 cups cake flour

For the Gingered Brown Butter Peaches

Instructions
 

To Make the Pound Cake:

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and mist a 9x5-inch loaf pan with non-stick spray.  Lay a sheet of parchment in the bottom and up the sides of the pan, and set aside.
  • In a large bowl, beat the butter on medium-high speed until shiny (about 15 seconds).  
  • With the mixer still running, slowly add the sugar in a steady stream. 
  • After about 30 seconds, when all the sugar has been added, beat the mixture on medium-high for 5 full minutes, until very fluffy and pale white.
  • Place the eggs and yolks in a small bowl and beat with a fork.  
  • While the mixer is running, pour the eggs down the side of the bowl in a thin stream. 
  • Add the vanilla and salt.
  • Turn off the mixer and place a sieve over the bowl.  
  • Sift in 1/2 cup cake flour, then fold carefully until just combined. Repeat twice, until all the flour has been incorporated. 
  • Transfer the mixture to the prepared loaf pan, and bake for 60-70 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. 
  • Cool for 20 minutes before removing from the pan.
  • Slice and serve with Gingered Brown Butter Peaches and whipped cream.

To Make the Gingered Brown Butter Peaches:

  • Place the butter in a small pot over low heat, and allow it to melt and then foam and sizzle.  When the melted butter is no longer sizzling, watch it carefully as it begins to brown.  Remove from the heat when it becomes a nutty brown color.
  • Whisk in the brown sugar, fresh ginger, vanilla, and cinnamon, and fold in the peaches.
Calories: 480kcal, Carbohydrates: 57g, Protein: 5g, Fat: 26g, Saturated Fat: 15g, Cholesterol: 168mg, Sodium: 144mg, Potassium: 176mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 43g, Vitamin A: 1050IU, Vitamin C: 4mg, Calcium: 38mg, Iron: 0.8mg
Cuisine: American
Course: Dessert, Snack
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Best Pound Cake Recipe I've ever tried!  There's no chemical leaveners so all you taste is the butter and eggs.  Those gingered brown butter peaches take it totally over the top!