Easy Buttermilk pound Cake recipe :
This Buttermilk pound Cake recipe combined butter and hot milk and the result is a tender cake that is going to be your favourite.
What Does Adding Buttermilk Do to a Cake?
Besides imparting its signature tangy flavor, the acid in buttermilk helps tenderize the gluten to give cake a softer texture. Buttermilk also reacts with baking powder to help cakes rise, that’s why you’ll notice this Buttermilk pound Cake recipe have baking powder — it’s added because we want a spongy texture and need it to rise much.
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Ingredients
To make this Buttermilk pound Cake recipe, you need :
●120 g (1/2 cup) whole milk
●60 g (1/4 cup) unsalted butter
●160 g (1+1/3 cup) all-purpose flour
●4 g (1 tsp) baking powder
●pinch of salt
●3 eggs, room temperature
●160 g (3/4 cup) caster sugar or granulated white sugar
●1 tsp vanilla paste or vanilla extract
How to make Buttermilk pound Cake recipe :
In a small saucepan place butter, milk and bring to a simmer over low heat, meanwhile sift together flour, baking powder, salt and set aside.
In a large bowl mix the eggs with vanilla using an electric mixer at medium-high speed.
When the eggs start foaming, add little by little sugar and keep on mixing at high speed until get a thick and pale mix.
Gently fold the flour mix into the egg mix in three times using a spatula (don’t use the electric mixer now, you don’t have to overbeat the flour) until well combined.
Add and combine in two times the hot milk mix: be careful to add the milk when still very hot.
Pour the cake batter into a lined and greased 20 cm – 8-inch cake pan.
Tap the cake pan onto the work surface and pass a skewer through the batter in the pan to remove air bubbles.
Bake in a preheated oven at 175°C-345°F for about 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Slightly cool down, then pass a thin spatula through the edges of the cake, unmold the cake and cool down completely on a wire rack.
You can sprinkle with powdered sugar on top and top with some fresh strawberries.
Store the Buttermilk pound Cake at room temperature covered with plastic wrap for about 3-4 days. You can use this cake to make layered cakes and frost with buttercream.
Now you know our Buttermilk pound Cake recipe.
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