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40+ Favorite Pound Cake Recipes

Last Updated On: November 06, 2023 | Published: November 17, 2022 by Melissa Diamond | 3 Comments
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In this post, we are sharing our FAVORITE pound cake recipes!

We've never met a pound cake that we didn't love- and over the years, we've shared so many different flavors! Today we are featuring our favorites.

Some of our most popular are our Buttermilk Pound Cake, Cream Cheese Pound Cake, Strawberry Pound Cake, and Lemon Pound Cake. But there are so many others that we love!

In this growing collection of pound cakes, we are featuring classic pound cakes, fruity pound cakes, chocolate pound cakes, and more.

How to Decorate a Pound Cake

Aside from the wonderful flavor, the best thing about making a pound cake (or bundt cake) is that they are so quick and easy to decorate.

Whether you choose a simple vanilla glaze, chocolate drip, a dusting of powdered sugar, a dollop of sweetened whipped cream, or a big scoop of vanilla ice cream, you can never go wrong!

Applying the easy chocolate drip to pound cake

Enjoy the Pound Cakes!

We hope that you enjoy scrolling through! Keep these favorite pound cake recipes in mind for your next birthday, holiday, or cake craving ;0)

Let us know if you try any of these cakes- we would love to see your photos in the comments below! Happy baking!

40+ Favorite Pound Cake Recipes

Sharing our FAVORITE pound cake recipes! If you are looking for the perfect pound cake, we have many to share with you! Buttery, perfectly dense and flavorful pound cake recipes are just a click away ;0)

1

Marble Pound Cake

This scratch marble pound cake has a wonderfully rich flavor with just the right amount of chocolate. It is ultra moist, incredibly soft, and surprisingly easy to make!

2

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This amazing cream cheese pound cake has added richness from the cream cheese in the recipe, and the most wonderful, velvety texture! This pound cake is easy to make and guaranteed to please!

3

Maple Pound Cake

This decadent Maple Pound Cake is one of our favorites for fall! It is ultra moist with wonderful maple flavor. We topped it with homemade caramel glaze and chopped pecans.

4

Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

This amazing Chocolate Chip Pound Cake has all of the flavors that you love in a chocolate chip cookie! It is super moist and tender thanks to the cake flour, sour cream, and brown sugar in the recipe.

5

Banana Pound Cake

This ultra moist Banana Pound Cake has a fine crumb and amazing banana flavor. It is topped with a homemade caramel glaze.

6

Lemon Coconut Pound Cake

This moist Lemon Coconut Pound Cake is so decadent and flavorful!

7

Cherry Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

This moist Cherry Chocolate Chip Pound Cake is moist, decadent, and has amazing flavor!

8

Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This lemon cream cheese pound cake has an ultra fine, moist crumb and velvety soft texture thanks to the cream cheese in the cake batter! You will love this easy and delicious pound cake recipe!

9

White Chocolate Pound Cake

This delicious White Chocolate Pound Cake is so moist and has wonderful white chocolate flavor!

10

Pineapple Pound Cake

This moist, decadent Pineapple Pound Cake has bits of pineapple in every slice! Keep this delicious cake in mind for your special occasions no matter what the season!

11

Red Velvet Pound Cake

This moist Red Velvet Pound Cake has wonderful richness from the butter and cream in the recipe, and the perfect amount of chocolate flavor. We love it with cream cheese frosting!

12

Butter Pecan Pound Cake

This moist Butter Pecan Pound Cake is moist and tender with a fine crumb. It has wonderful flavor from buttered pecans, light brown sugar, and a caramel glaze!

13

Buttermilk Pound Cake

This ultra moist buttermilk pound cake is so velvety soft with a melt-in-your-mouth texture- we just love this recipe!

14

Gingerbread Pound Cake

This amazingly moist, flavorful Gingerbread Pound Cake has a velvety soft texture and fantastic flavor! You will love this easy recipe- especially in the fall and winter months!

15

White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake

This moist, tender White Chocolate Raspberry Pound Cake is so delicious and makes for a beautiful slice too!

16

Eggnog Pound Cake

This perfectly decadent Eggnog Pound Cake is ultra moist and flavored with eggnog, nutmeg and cinnamon. We've topped it with spiced cream cheese frosting. Keep this recipe in mind for your Christmas and winter gatherings!

17

Lemon Orange Pound Cake

Moist, flavorful Lemon Orange Pound Cake! This buttery, moist pound cake has wonderful citrus flavor.

18

Three Layer Pound Cake

This tender, flavorful pound cake is not only delicious, but with three layers of vanilla and chocolate, it is beautiful too!

19

Neapolitan Pound Cake

This moist ice cream-inspired Neapolitan Pound Cake has amazing chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry flavor! Such a beautiful slice!

20

Strawberry Pound Cake

This moist Strawberry Pound Cake is heavenly! We love the strawberry flavor- it is sure to become a year-round favorite for the strawberry lovers in your life!

21

Whipping Cream Pound Cake

This tender, rich pound cake is sure to satisfy your dessert cravings- tastes amazing on it's own, or topped with frosting, ice cream, or berries and whipped cream!

22

Brown Sugar Toffee Pound Cake

This moist and buttery Brown Sugar Toffee Pound Cake has amazing brown sugar and toffee flavor, and is topped with a luscious caramel icing glaze.

23

Peach Pound Cake

This buttery Peach Pound Cake is ultra moist with diced peaches folded into the batter!

24

Pecan Caramel Bundt Cake

This moist Pecan Caramel Bundt Cake is so moist and flavorful! It has a delightful flavor combination of pecans, cinnamon, brown sugar, and a caramel drip.

25

Lemon Pound Cake

This Lemon Pound Cake is incredibly soft, moist, and delicious! You will love how simple it is to make. Perfect for summer celebrations!

26

Lemon Blueberry Sour Cream Pound Cake

This ultra moist, tender Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake is SO delicious! The sour cream in the recipe gives it a rich flavor and velvety texture.

27

Pound Cake Recipe- A Classic Southern Favorite

This moist pound cake is SO delicious and easy to make! Serve it plain or topped with berries and cream!

28

Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake with Peppermint Glaze

The most flavorful Red Velvet Marble Pound Cake with Peppermint Glaze! We love this cake year round, but adding the peppermint glaze makes it the perfect Christmas on winter cake!

29

7 Up Pound Cake

This retro 7 Up Pound Cake is a tried and true favorite- known for it's light lemon lime flavor and for the 7 Up used in the batter! It has wonderful flavor, soft texture, and a fine crumb.

30

Rainbow Pound Cake {Rainbow Inside}

Learn how to make a rainbow cake in this free cake video! We're using our go-to pound cake recipe to demonstrate the rainbow technique! So fun (and delicious)!

31

Sour Cream Pound Cake

This tender, moist pound cake is so delicious! The sour cream in the recipe adds a layer of richness and enhances the texture of this flavorful cake!

32

Champagne Pound Cake

This Champagne Pound Cake is ultra moist, has a fine crumb, and a light champagne flavor! It is perfect for all sorts of special occasions.

33

Cherry Pound Cake (with Coconut Frosting)

This moist, tender cherry pound cake is delicious just as it is but we've paired it with a luscious coconut cream cheese frosting for a dessert that is sure to please!

34

Chocolate Cream Cheese Pound Cake

This moist chocolate cream cheese pound cake has a tender, velvety, texture with a fine crumb. It is sure to satisfy your chocolate cravings but is not an overly rich chocolate cake. It is delicious! We love to dress it up with a simple chocolate glaze.

35

Lemon Whipping Cream Pound Cake

This Lemon Whipping Cream Pound Cake is melt-in-your-mouth delicious! Super moist, soft, and has wonderful lemon flavor.

36

Cherry Almond Pound Cake

In this dessert, ultra moist almond pound cake is swirled with cherry for a flavor combination you are guaranteed to love!

37

Strawberry Swirl Pound Cake

This soft, tender Strawberry Swirl Pound Cake is a slice of heaven! The cake is so moist and has just the right amount of strawberry flavor.

38

Pumpkin Toffee Pecan Pound Cake

This moist Pumpkin Toffee Pound Cake is so moist and has amazing flavor from pumpkin, toffee, pecans, spices, and a caramel glaze!

39

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pound Cake

This moist Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Pound Cake has amazing flavor and a delicious peanut butter glaze.

40

Almond Sour Cream Pound Cake

This moist, tender Almond Sour Cream Pound Cake is so flavorful and easy to make! If you love almond desserts, you will love this recipe!

41

Chocolate Whipping Cream Pound Cake

This moist Chocolate Whipping Cream Pound Cake has a velvety soft texture, fine crumb. and the perfect amount of chocolate flavor!

42

Coconut Pound Cake

This moist Coconut Pound Cake is easy to make and tastes amazing!

43

Double Chocolate Pound Cake

This decadent double chocolate pound cake tastes amazing and is so simple to make!

Pound Cake FAQs

Yes! Pound Cakes freeze beautifully. Simply wrap with plastic wrap, followed by foil. We often freeze our cakes while they are still slightly warm, but you can freeze leftover cake as well.

To thaw the cake, move the wrapped cake from the freezer to the refrigerator the night before. Then, move to the kitchen counter then next morning and continue to warm to room temperature. Once condensation has stopped forming on the foil, it is fine to unwrap.

Pound cake first originated in 18th century Europe. The original classic recipe was a delicious, easy cake recipe that called for a pound of each ingredient: a pound of flour, a pound of butter, a pound of eggs, and a pound of sugar.  

We have a large collection Bundt Cakes on our site as well! Our Strawberry Bundt Cake and Lemon Bundt Cake are two popular examples. Any cake baked in a bundt pan can be referred to as a bundt cake.

However, pound cakes are generally going to be more dense with a tighter crumb as they usually contain more butter, sugar, and eggs.

Our favorite pound cakes are ultra moist with a velvety soft texture. Many of our favorites contain either buttermilk, sour cream, or cream cheese frosting. Cakes with an extra boost of acidity soften the strands of gluten in the recipe, resulting in a more tender cake.

In addition, some of our cakes contain cake flour, which has a lower protein content. This also results in a softer crumb.

Finally, using whipping cream instead of milk also adds wonderful richness of flavor and results in a more tender crumb.

Here are just a few examples: Our Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake which contains sour cream, our Cream Cheese Pound Cake which contains cream cheese and buttermilk, our Lemon Pound Cake which contains buttermilk, and our Whipping Cream Pound Cake. All of these pound cakes are rich, soft and tender!

No, pound cakes do not need refrigeration unless they have a perishable glaze or topping. You can store in an airtight container on the kitchen counter.

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  2. Love to use my Nordic Bundt pans for cakes and all these recipes will work but I’d love the gingerbread recipe most!

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