Half Pound Cake
"This small cake is only 6 ounces, about 4 servings. I like to top the slices with fresh peaches and whipped cream. This recipe was adapted from Barbara Swain's, "Cookery for 1 or 2". I added the baking powder which is not in the original recipe, it's optional."
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 4
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup butter, room temperature
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1⁄4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1⁄3 teaspoon baking powder
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 F (165 C).
- Line a 6" x 3" aluminum foil loaf pan with wax paper, by taking a length of wax paper, folding it over lengthwise to fit in the pan, to ease removal of the cake.
- Then grease the pan and paper with butter.
- Beat butter in a small bowl until soft and light.
- Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
- Beat egg in another small bowl.
- Gradually add to the butter-flour mixture, beating until fluffy.
- Stir in vanilla.
- Stir in flour and baking powder, beat until fluffy.
- spoon batter into prepared pan.
- Bake about 55 minutes, until edges separate from the pan.
- Cool in the pan about 15 minutes.
- Loosen sides and remove by lifting ends of the wax paper.
- Cool on a wire rack.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
lynnski LA
Los Angeles, CA
I live in a wooded hillside area of Los Angeles where it feels like being out in the country. I grew up in Rhode Island, and came to LA after graduating from URI. I recently retired from my job as an environmental specialist. So now I have time to collect internet recipes. My hobbies & interests are aquatics, shell collecting, my cats, feeding stray cats, home improvement projects and cooking.
I love to travel and, years ago, lived in Mexico for several months. My favorite cookbooks are the ones written by Diana Kennedy; they are all great; and I have them all, some signed by her when I was enrolled in her cooking classes. I have a lot of cookbooks; some of my other fave authors and their books are: Madhur Jaffrey (especially World Vegetarian, World of East Vegetarian Cooking and A Taste of the Far East), Faye Levy, Martha Rose Shulman (especially Mediterranean Light, Provencal Light and Mexican Light) and Paula Wolfert.
