Bake It Like You Mean It by Gesine Bullock-Prado

Author:Gesine Bullock-Prado [Bullock-Prado, Gesine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4532-7691-4
Publisher: Abrams

WE’RE STARTING OUR NEXT BAKING ADVENTURE WITH VARIATIONS ON the classic pound cake because there’s something so damned beautiful about a recipe that is insanely simple yet mind-blowingly delicious. The name of the cake will tell you everything you need to know—there’s no way to keep this recipe a secret. A classic pound cake will always contain one pound each of flour, sugar, butter, and eggs. Period. That’s it. No leavening. No fancy stuff. What results, with the proper technique, is a dense but moist loaf of decadence.

Of course bakers, being the creative animals we are, have fiddled with the ratios and added ingredients over the years. And of course there are variations depending on region and country. The traditional English pound cake is just butter, flour, sugar, and eggs, while Americans tend to add sour cream and even a touch of baking powder. The changes made to the traditional method are often due to the fact that if you don’t execute the classic recipe correctly, the resulting loaf will be thick and dry. Adding sour cream and leavening gives you a better chance at great results.

Another splendid thing about pound-cake batters is that although the most traditional are baked in plain old loaf pans, the cakes lend themselves wonderfully to being molded into intricate Bundt pans, like the Austrian Gugelhupf, allowing a simple cake to appear regal and exquisitely adorned with little effort on your part.

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