One of my customer asked if my mold would hold a pound cake and how long it would take for it to bake. Since I am not one that bakes a lot of pound cakes, i decided to fix a few so as to check those details and also to find the best recipe ever. I will say that my favorite pound cake comes from the blog page entitled Plain Chicken. I did change a few things. I needed to reduce the quantities and I substituted butter to the shortening she had listed in the recipe ( not fan of this). Anyway, try it, it is delicious;-)

Ingredients for one Pound cake:

• 1 cup or 2 sticks of butter
• 2 cups of granulated sugar
• 2 cups of flour
• 2 tsp or 10 gr. of baking powder
• 2/4 tsp of salt
• 4 eggs at room temperature
• 2/3 cup of milk
• 4 tbsp of lemon juice or about the juice of one entire lemon
• the zest of one lemon
• 4 tbsp of poppy seeds

1. Turn the oven to 350.
2. In a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients ( flour, salt, baking powder and poppy seeds) and set aside.
3. In a mixer, place the butter and the sugar and beat until it has doubled in size and is very fluffy.
4. Add the dry ingredients in three additions alternating with the milk. Mix well in between each addition.
   
5. Mix in the lemon zest and the lemon juice.
6. Pour in the mold of your choice. I chose to use the sunshine mold. Make sure that you leave an inch off the top so that the cake will not overflow. 
7. Bake in the oven at 350 for 55 minutes ( you may cook it a little more times if you are using a tin or a glass bakeware. Demarle bakeware seems to bake things much quicker. Also all oven cook at different temperature so you may need to check for doneness with a toothpick.
8. Eat as such, or with sides of your choice;-) Yumm….

Bon Appetit and Happy Cooking!!!