Alabama NewsCenter — Recipe: Buttermilk Pound Cake

By Stacey Little
Southern Bite

I just love a pound cake. There’s something magical about the simplicity of a perfectly baked, deliciously flavored pound cake. But I love really simple things like that. My family often jokingly calls me the “Mayor of Vanillatown” because of my love of simple flavors. No offense to the Mayor of Flavortown, Mr. Guy Fieri.

The name pound cake comes from the fact that the original recipe, thought to be northern European, contained a pound each of butter, flour, sugar and eggs. Fortunately, we’ve since adapted the recipe a bit.

When it comes to making pound cake, there are two major issues, from my perspective.

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