Pound cake. A kind of cream cake. Just as the name implies, it's made of cream. It's also the ancestor of modern cake. So it's called pound cake. Pound is a weight unit. Because in the initial production of this kind of cake, it's a pound of cream, a pound of sugar, a pound of flour and a pound of eggs. After all the materials are made according to the steps, they are divided into different parts and put into molds for baking. The batter in each mold is a pound . so it's called pound cake. Pound cake is full-bodied and thick in taste. The flavor will be better if the finished product is put for two more days. It belongs to British traditional cake.
Step1:Prepare ingredients. Butter softens at room temperature.
Step2:Put the oiled paper on the outside of the mould. Fold out the crease of the mould size.
Step3:Cut the oil paper to the four corners of the mold as shown in the figure.
Step4:Fold the oiled paper and put it into the mould.
Step5:Soak the sugar orange peel in hot water. The water volume is just less than that of the orange peel. This is to make the orange peel soft.
Step6:I can't wait for the butter to soften. Put it in the microwave for 30 seconds. It's half melted.
Step7:I think it's a little thin after mixing smoothly.
Step8:Refrigerate for a few minutes. Now it's a bit like butter softening.
Step9:Add suga
Step10:Beat until the butter turns white and expands twice.
Step11:Add eggs one by one. Beat well before adding the next one.
Step12:The butter paste has become smooth
Step13:Flour + baking powder. Sift together into the butter paste.
Step14:Mix evenly from bottom to to
Step15:After controlling the moisture content of the sugar orange peel, add it into the batter and mix well.
Step16:Put the batter into the mould. The two ends should be higher and the middle should be lower, because during the baking process, the batter will swell and swell in the middle.
Step17:Put the grill in the second to last layer of the preheated oven. Bake at 190 ℃ for 35 minutes.
Step18:Take out the mold after bakin
Step19:Take out the cake with oil paper. Brush the surface with sugar water or honey water soaked in orange peel.
Step20:Slice and eat after coolin
Step21:Soft and soft tast
Cooking tips:1. After baking and cooling, remove the oilpaper. It can keep the moisture of the cake to a greater extent. 2. Orange peel without sugar can be replaced by raisins or cranberries. But that way, there is no orange flavor - there are skills to make delicious dishes.