Pound Cake.
You can cook Pound Cake using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Pound Cake
- Prepare 3 of room temperature eggs - separated.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of granulated sugar.
- Prepare 1 cup of yoghurt.
- You need 1 cup of vegetable oil.
- Prepare 1.5 cup of All purpose flour - sifted.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of baking powder.
- You need 1 tbsp of vanilla essence.
- You need 1 pinch of salt.
- It's 1 tbsp of honey for brushing.
- It's of Optional - 1 tbsp cocoa.
Pound Cake instructions
- Beat egg yolks and sugar till light and fluffy. Add in Vanilla essence..
- Add in vegetable oil and yoghurt..
- Now mix in flour, salt, baking powder till just combined with no lumps..
- In a separate bowl, beat egg whites till stiff..
- Now, incorporate egg whites into the flour batter by folding it in (do not whisk, we want to keep this light and airy!).
- Optional - take 1 tbsp off batter and mix with cocoa powder for create a choco swirl on top..
- Pour batter in a well greased baking dish of your choice. If doing the choco swirl, drop lumps of choco batter on top and swirl using a toothpick.
- Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees C till toothpick comes out clean. This will depend on how flat your baking dish is..
- Once done, brush the top with honey for an extra shine!.