Vanilla Cardamom Buttermilk Pound Cake is yet another pound cake 🙂 What can I say? You can never have too many pound cake recipes.
Hey, Monday morning… I love a fresh start, a brand new to-do list, a new menu for the week, and so on. That is why I love Mondays because if I feel like I have completely failed at life on Friday then, I can just forget all that and start all over on Monday morning 🙂 I mean I don’t know about everyone else but, I have to find ways to be and stay positive!
Speaking of positive things, let’s talk about this cake! Buttermilk, vanilla, cardamom, and all the other normal ingredients come together to make this cake delicious and I was determined to make a pound cake that would fit into this bundt pan which is a little smaller than the typical bundt. Annd it fits perfectly! I have several of these 10-cup pans and got so tired of having two cups of batter left over when making a cake. So this recipe will solve that problem and it can be changed up with different flavors and add-ins!
Happy Monday!!
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp ground cardamom
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- 1 cups buttermilk
- powdered sugar for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour 10-inch bundt pan or spray with baking spray.
- Beat together sugar and butter in a mixer at medium speed until pale and fluffy, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Reduce speed of the mixer to med/low and add eggs one at a time and beat well after each.
- Whisk together all dry ingredients except the baking soda. Stir the buttermilk and baking soda together. Add the dry and wet ingredients to the mixer bowl(alternating)ending with the dry. Mixing on low/stir speed just until blended. Stir in the vanilla extract.
- Pour into prepared pan. Tap pan on the counter to remove any air bubbles. Bake for about 1 hour or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and allow the cake to cool in pan for about 1 hour. Invert onto a cooling rack and allow to cool at least 1 more hour.
- Sift powdered sugar over the cake when completely cooled.
I love cardamom spice! The fresh, minty profile is so uplifting. This is a must-try pound cake.
Thank you so much! 🙂
Just pulled this out of the oven!
Yay! I hope you enjoy! 🙂
Can this be made in a 9×13 pan?
Yes it can! It will have a more firm texture which is great if you need to decorate it for a birthday etc…
This was absolutely delicious! New favorite of my sister-in-law’s so it will be made many more times.
I am so glad that you enjoyed it! Thank you for your comment!
This tasted great! Loved it!
BUT for some reason, it does not look like that beautiful crumbly consistency. I baked it for a little over an hour and it looks as if it’s under baked. Like I said it TASTES great but the consistency of it didn’t turn out. I don’t know why 😩 did I over bake it ? Or maybe I should’ve used regular granulated sugar instead of organic sugar from Costco.. ????
Hi! Thanks so much!
I have had this happen with pound cakes myself. Sometimes that clear underbaked consistency can happen(with pound cakes) if the batter settles too quickly while baking and slamming a door in the kitchen can cause it or any movement like jumping up and down. I make my hubs tiptoe around when I have one in the oven, ha! It could be from overmixing as well. I don’t really think the sugar would matter unless the consistency was really different from reg. granulated sugar.
I plan to update this recipe with hopefully helpful tips soon! Thank you for the feedback 😊.
I want to make this again, but in loaf pans. Any thoughts
Hi! I haven’t made it in loaf pans yet but, I think most of the batter would fit in one 9″x5″ pan and one mini loaf pan if you have it. I need to try this and update the recipe.
hi this cake is delicious. I make it twice once adding vanilla extract and the 2nd time lemon with 1 teasp. grated lemon zest.
Hi! Thank you so much for your comment. I’m so glad that you enjoyed the recipe! I will have to try the lemon, it sounds delicious!
Moist cake-absolutely delicious
Thank you so much!!
How much butter is 2 sticks?
Hi! Two sticks are equal to one cup.
Where did you find that cake pan?
Hi! Williams Sonoma. I just checked to see if they still have them and they do. It is by Nordic Ware and the style name is party bundt pan 🙂