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Bread Machine Pound Cake
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Bread Machine Pound Cake

This bread machine pound cake recipe creates a delicious & buttery pound cake. It is made with simple ingredients such as butter, eggs, sugar & flour. Please visit Bread Dad (BreadDad.com) for more easy bread machine recipes.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time1 hour 40 minutes
Total Time1 hour 50 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American, European
Keyword: bread machine cake, bread machine pound cake, bread maker cake, bread maker pound cake, pound cake, pound cake bread machine, pound cake recipe
Servings: 12 Slices
Calories: 364kcal
Author: Bread Dad

Ingredients

  • 2 Eggs (lightly beaten) - Large eggs. Not extra large or jumbo eggs.
  • 1/2 Cup Milk (warm) - 118 milliliters
  • 8 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter - 115 grams - Soften the butter (e.g. semi-melt the butter in your microwave).
  • 2 Cups All Purpose Flour - 240 grams
  • 1 Cup White Granulated Sugar - 200 grams
  • 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract - 15 milliliters
  • 3 Teaspoons Baking Powder - 12 grams - Do not use baking soda! If you use baking soda, the cake will not rise.
  • 1/2 Teaspoon Salt - 3 grams

Instructions

  • Bread Machine Settings - Light Color, 2 lbs, Cake/Quick Bread
  • Unplug your bread machine and remove the bread pan from the bread machine.
  • Soften the butter in the microwave.
  • Lightly beat the eggs.
  • Add the eggs, milk & butter into the bread pan and then add the rest of the ingredients (except the confectioners sugar). FYI - You should consider premixing the ingredients before adding the batter to the bread pan. This helps to prevent flour from sticking to the sides of the bread pan and/or finding small flour "clumps" in the finished cake. See the tips section below for more info.
  • Put the bread pan back into the bread machine, close the bread machine lid and then plug in the bread machine.
  • Enter the correct bread machine settings (Cake/Quick Bread, Light Color, 2 lb.) and press the start button. FYI - Before making this recipe, please read the tips section below for more information regarding the cake & sweet "quick bread" setting. The setting may be called "quick bread", "quick bread/cake", "cake", etc. This setting lasts for roughly 1:40-1:50 hours (and you will see this time in your machine's electronic display panel). However, some manufacturers use the "quick bread" setting name for rapid sandwich-type breads that use yeast (and not for cake & quick bread recipes that use baking powder/soda). This "quick bread" sandwich bread setting lasts for only 50-60 minutes (which is not long enough for a cake recipe and your cake will be undercooked!!). This setting can be very confusing... but the tips section below will help you to find the right setting to use on your machine. You need to enter the correct cake setting used by your SPECIFIC bread machine model or the cake could be under or overcooked. Do not use any settings designed for yeast-based recipes (see your manual).
  • When the bread machine has finished baking the cake, unplug the bread machine, remove the bread pan and place it on a wooden cutting board. Use oven mitts when removing the bread pan because it will be very hot!
  • After removing the bread pan from the bread machine, you should let the cake stay within the warm bread pan on a wooden cutting board for 10 minutes (as this finishes the baking process) before you remove the cake from the bread pan. Wear oven mitts.
  • After the 10 minute "cooldown", you should remove the cake from the bread pan and place the cake on a wire cooling rack to finish cooling. Use oven mitts when removing the bread.
  • You should allow the cake to completely cool before cutting. This can take up to 1-2 hours. Otherwise, the cake will break (crumble) more easily when cut.
  • Optional - After the cake has cooled, sprinkle some powdered confectioners sugar on the top of the cake.
  • Please read the tips section in order to maximize the success of this bread machine recipe.

Notes

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Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 364kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 10g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 256mg | Sodium: 291mg | Potassium: 111mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 25g | Vitamin A: 683IU | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 2mg