Pound Cake (Cake Recipes)

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Step 16:

At 5-7 minute intervals, check on the cake again. Poke it with a new toothpick. If it's clean, check several spots on the cake. Once the toothpick comes out clean everywhere, it's time to take the pound cake out of the oven. Total cooking time for my pound cake was just under 1 hour. Your cooking time may vary, depending on your oven, pan, and other variations. Use the toothpick, become one with the toothpick, love the toothpick.

Ah, wonderful pound cake.

Now comes what just may be the hardest part. You can't touch it yet. Really! You need to walk away for 15 minutes to let the pound cake cool down. Resist the urge to remove it from the pan right away, all you'll do is end up with a pile of pound cake crumbs.

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Step 17:

We come back 15 minutes later to find this. As you can see, the pound cake has fallen back a bit. That's normal, no worries there.

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Step 18:

Now grab the pan using potholders (it's still really hot, really.) and quickly but carefully flip the bundt pan over onto the cooling rack. You need to do it quickly or the pound cake might fall out and break.

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Step 19:

Now we just remove the bundt pan slowly (if you feel it catching, go easy on it) and voila!

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Step 20:

All that's left at this point is to cut ourselves a slice of the pound cake, pour a nice tall glass of milk, and enjoy the heck out of it.