OK, so you might recall me mentioning in a previous post (A Day Of My Own) that I remembered having a recipe that I loved, and that was well-loved by my family, for an Old Fashioned Brown Sugar Cake. And I couldn’t find said recipe, but I wanted to share it here on my blog. Well, I went hunting and found one that is just as good, if not better! I love finding new recipes and trying them out, and possibly finding new family favorites to share at holidays and get-togethers.
I found it at www. AllRecipes.com, and you can see the original recipe here: Brown Sugar Pound Cake
So I made this cake over the weekend. You may notice that the photo I used is not one that I took, but its a photo by Nathalie Jolie on Unsplash.
That’s because by the time I wanted to take a photo of my creation … half the cake had disappeared! I mean literally … and I was to blame for most of it.
This is a great brown sugar pound cake. And I love a good pound cake. This one has lots of butter, lots of eggs, lots of brown sugar, and lots of pecans … although I had walnuts on hand, so that’s what I used.
It’s a very dense cake, as pound cakes tend to be (duh!) … so when my youngest daughter and I ate some, we put whipped cream on the top. Youngest daughter put on more whipped cream than I did … you could barely see the cake under all the mounds of whipped cream she piled on. But she is a whipped cream fiend, so … it was understandable.
I was regretting we didn’t have some vanilla ice cream in the house, because it would have been great with a scoop of THAT on top, instead of the whipped cream, with the cake still slightly warm and ice cream slowly melting over it. 🙂
One of my favorite parts about this brown sugar pound cake was the sweet, slightly crunchy outside that it developed. The inside was moist and nutty, and the outside had almost a crunchy, carmel-y finish to it. Yummy!
So here are the ingredients:
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups butter
- 5 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup milk
- 3 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan. Mix together the flour and baking powder; set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar and white sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, mixing just until incorporated. Sir in the chopped pecans. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 60 to 75 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
I had to bake my cake a little longer, due to the stoneware bundt pan that I used. I use Pampered Chef stoneware (I used to be a consultant) and wouldn’t use anything else. Stoneware usually needs a couple extra minutes baking time, I have found – but the results are worth it! I highly recommend cooking/baking in stoneware; I have yet to burn ANYTHING, and everything cooks/bakes so evenly and browns so nicely. I think I had to bake the cake an extra 5 minutes, and it came out perfectly.
So what is the recipe that your family requests again and again, for holiday gatherings or special occasions? Share it below, or if you have a post about it – share the link. Thanks! 🙂
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Joan Merrell is a solo mom to two daughters, a widow, and a security technician at Oregon State Hospital. Oregon native, farm girl and 4H leader, maker of homemade bread and chocolate chip cookies, she balances (more or less) full-time work with caring for a home filled with a teenage daughter, 2 entitled cats, and a hyper German Shepherd. She enjoys gardening and hiking, reading Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti novels, and searches for a few spare minutes to communicate with her grown daughter and son-in-law on her Marco Polo app. Find out more about Joan here.
Yum brown sugar pound cake sounds wonderful for this fall weekend. Found you on Merry Monday. Would love if you could stop by and share with us tonight at 7pm EST at Throwback Thursdays link party! @ http://tornadoughalli.com or http://dadwhats4dinner.com to link up! Thanks Quinn
We have a recipe from my grandmother for a coffee cake that is absolutely delicious! We make it every year for the holidays (and make a couple extra to freeze). This cake looks yummy! Thanks for linking up with us at the Merry Monday Link Party! See you again on Sunday night!
Oh wow – I can almost taste this with a cup of hot coffee. Mmm –
Thanks for sharing on What’s for Dinner sunday. I’d love it if you went back and left me a comment!
Sounds great! Thank you so much for linking up to Merry Monday this week! I am sharing your post today on my Twitter and pinned it to our MM Pinterest board. We hope to see you next week for another great party! Have a great week!
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Kim
I am always nagging people to write down the family recipes before they are lost. As a matter of fact that’s why my blog was started.
Lovely cake! My family asks me to make cinnamon rolls and date squares. 🙂
Thanks, Julia! Yum … cinnamon rolls and date squares sound great! Funny how we become known for a certain recipe, and folks always seem to ask for that. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Have a great weekend!
This would be great to make for my mom who loves pound cake! Thanks for sharing and thanks for linking up at the TGIF Hop!
You’re welcome. And thanks for stopping by and commenting, Ida. And thank also for hosting the TGIF Hop! 🙂 Have a great rest of the week, and a super weekend.
This reminds me of my father-in-law. Every single time we would visit he would have a warm pound cake waiting for us when we arrived. It didn’t matter if it was 10:00 in the morning or midnight… There was always warm pound cake!!
Thanks, Bekki. What a lovely tradition! Thanks for sharing that, and thanks for stopping by and for commenting. I love to hear from other folks about what a post means to them. Have a great week! 🙂
Wow, this sounds amazing! I too love a good pound cake 🙂 I haven’t used stoneware bakeware before, will need to give it a try!
Thanks, Joy! And thank you for stopping by and commenting. I love stoneware – I used to be a Pampered Chef consultant, so I guess that explains it. 🙂 My girls have grown up cooking with all of the Pampered Chef tools, and it’s fun to now be able to help my oldest gather kitchen stuff, now that she has moved out and has her own place. Have a great week! 🙂
Love your sight & especially this recipe. Thannks.
I think I have that recipe from you or your mom if you want it. 🙂
Thanks, Michelle. I will probably try to get that from you … then I can have TWO recipes like that. 🙂