Fuzz loved “Whipped Cream Pound Cake” because it had 4 eggs to crack! It’s from one of my favorite cookbooks “Classic Home Desserts” by Richard Sax, a simple but informative book with great recipes, a friendly laid back tone, and a bit of history on some classic dessert favorites.

The recipe was given to Richard Sax by his friend Jan Bayrock, and he cites it as having a unique and less dense texture than the standard pound cake. He also points out that whipped cream pound cake has almost half the fat of most pound cake recipes. In fact, it has no butter at all. All of the fat comes from 1 cup heavy cream.

I ran the nutrition stats through Mastercook and came up with 7 fat grams per slice. Fuzz enjoyed hers for dessert (with strawberries and more whipped cream), Todd will have a piece later, and the rest will probably go into some sort of trifle. All in all, it was a good use of a fifty cent pint of cream and got a recipe I’d been interesting in baking out of my system.

Recipe

Richard Sax’s Whipped Cream Pound Cake

Anna

Whipped Cream Pound Cake

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 10

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour, aerate well or weigh (250 grams)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup heavy cream
4 large eggs
1 ½ cups sugar (300 grams)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
A few drops of almond extract

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 10 inch tube pan or spray with flour-added cooking spray.
Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
Beat cream until thick, then set aside.
Beat eggs until foamy. Beat in sugar, vanilla and almond extract. Stir in flour mixture until blended. Fold in whipped cream. Bake in tube pan for about 45-50 minutes. Turn from pan.

Notes

I’ve never tried this with cake flour, but I I think it would be even better with 8 oz (2 1/4 cup) of cake flour.

Keyword Whipped Cream Pound Cake

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Comments

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Mark

January 20, 2006 at 5:27 pm

Looks like you two had a lot of fun … everything looks great.
Punky

January 17, 2006 at 10:14 pm

Your soux chef is too cute. And that pound cake looks divine. Its one of my favorite special treats.
Anna

January 17, 2006 at 6:10 pm

Randi, I don’t have the Baking With Julia book. I believe it’s at our branch library, though.I think Richard Sax died of AIDS too, though I’m not exactly sure.
Randi

January 17, 2006 at 3:31 pm

btw, i got your email about being tagged. Im going to do it soon, i promise.
Randi

January 17, 2006 at 3:31 pm

the vanilla pound cake in baking with Julia is really good too.
Randi

January 17, 2006 at 3:30 pm

it looks great. I have had that richard sax book on my watched list on ebay a bunch of times and i keep getting outbid. Its sad that he died. He wrote another book about light cooking. I think he might have died of aids. So sad.
Maureen

January 17, 2006 at 9:29 am

I want those Hello Kitty pajamas! Adorable!
Anna

January 17, 2006 at 9:05 am

Well, she ate it. Pound cake isn’t her favorite thing, but she took pride in her work.Amy, do you have a favorite pound cake recipe?
Amy

January 17, 2006 at 5:00 am

I love poundcake. And I love that picture of Fuzz!
Culinarily Obsessed

January 17, 2006 at 12:06 am

aww Fuzzy is such a cutie!! Looks like she’s lovin that cake. I would be too..looks delicious =)