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The Pound Cake Book

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This tiny little book is filled with more info on this country's most beloved cake than any other cookbook I've found. It has clear and concise recipes with a cake for every taste. If you love poundcake you have to get this book!

I found this little pound cake cookbook by accident here on Amazon.com, and I am so happy I did. The author, Bibb Jordan explains what the meaning of pound cake is, it's origins, and how to make the "perfect" pound cake. I have a website for Home Baker's and I choose to include on my site a wonderful recipe from this book: Chocolate Truffle Pound Cake. This cake is amazing, like so many of the other ones in the book. I also make a recommendation on my site for home baker's to definitely purchase this book. I highly recommend it for the "Pound Cake Lover", and anyone who loves to bake wonderful pound cakes.

I would like to make one suggestion to the author, and that is to include how many servings the cakes make. Otherwise, the book, like the pound cakes are perfect.

I was really excited when I received this little book. I LOVE pound cakes and paid a small fortune to obtain this book. I am an experienced baker and although I already have a large collection of books I read the positive reviews and could not resist. What a disappointment! I have now tried numerous recipes all with very mediocre results. For example: the Pineapple-Macadamia Nut came out more like bread, Liza's Pound Cake heavy and fairly tasteless, and the Coffee Cake recipe does not compare to the version in "Perfect Cakes" by Nick Malgieri. I think the problem lies in how the ingredients are put in the mixer. It is better to put in a bit of flour, then some sour cream, then some flour again instead of lumping everything together. I really, really wanted to like this book. I tried numerous recipes but there was not a winner among them. The Pound Cake cookbook by Fran Wheeler produced far better results. Not recommended!

I own many baking books and am always serching for new recipes.I purchased this book after reading the so positive reviews everyone made about it.I am very happy with it, I guess there's no other book on pound cakes that can be so simple and concise as this one and having so good recipes! The writing is very clear,baking tips the right ones and the results excelent! Also the book format is very handy. The only minus is that there are no photos at all but I guess that's also why the price is so appealing!

If you love pound cake and are looking for something different to do and eat this book is great! try the awesome marble pound cake recipe.

It's a tiny little book but the recipes are fantastic! I made 2 recipes and both were truly delicious! There are very clear directions and excellent recommendations on baking to make sure that your pound cake tastes worth the effort. A newbie to baking could still make a great cake by following these recommendations. The variations on pound cake were interesting. There are even recipes for using mini-bundt cake pans. That was useful to me because I have such a pan and have never used it. Now I know what I can bake in it. I wish I had more occasions to bake all of the cakes in this book. I say "occasions" because they are not something to keep in the house. I could not stop eating the pound cake with brandy and candied ginger or the almond pound cake! I'm still working off all of those extra calories! I bought the book used and I wish there were more available on Amazon. I paid a lot less than $80 for mine. The only disappointment was finding a couple of recipes torn out of the book. Once I looked at the table of Contents I saw that they were recipes that I probably would have enjoyed too.