How to make Moist Southern Pound Cake (EASY)

[Music] hi everybody everybody I'm back everybody Jeannie off is back and I'm back with another amazing recipe I am so excited today because today at the Young's house TV I'm just going to share with you all just how easy it is to make pound cake this pound cake is so moist it's so delicious and it's really easy this recipe does not require a lot of ingredients and you know you make a gina young style it's gonna be so tasty y'all never have my pound cake before you better make you so here are the lovely ingredients you will need okay you will need three cups of white granulated sugar that's what we have here and then we also have three sticks of butter now if you decide to use unsalted butter then you're going to use a pinch of salt if you use salted butter just omit the salt now right here we have all-purpose flour and this is three cups as well you're going to need the salt if you have the unsalted butter right here I have some Crisco that I'm going to rub into my pan okay and then you're gonna do two teaspoons of baking powder of course you're gonna need some vanilla you will need 6 large eggs and you're gonna need some strawberries make sure your hands are impeccably clean let's get started with this really quick and simple it's so tasty recipe ok everyone so when you're making a cake one of the first things that you always want to do is you want to cream your butter and your sugar my butter that I'm gonna be using today is salted okay so I'm not going to use the salt so let's go ahead and get our sticks of butter in but what's very important about your butter is you want to make sure that this butter is room temperature you don't want it to have any chill to it I set this butter out on the counter this morning and it's evening time right now that's how long I let it set okay so I don't suggest if your butter is cold I don't suggest throwing it in the microwave to soften it up just wait a little longer until it comes to room temperature and then proceed with your recipe okay so let's get this beautiful butter right into our mixer now when we start to talk about the mixer you don't have to use a stand up mixer like I'm using today you can mix this up by hand and that's going to be just as tasty and if you didn't want to mix it up by hand it's okay to even use the mixer that has the two beaters okay so let's get three sticks of butter right here into our stand-up mixer and what we're going to do we're going to cream together the butter and the sugar that's three cups of granulated sugar that we've measured out always level off your ingredients you know just use a butter knife to make sure that your sugar and your flour is nice and leveled so you can have the correct measurements so there's the butter and then we go with the three cups of sugar when I come back we're going to cream these two together until the sugar becomes nice and silent okay everyone so we're ready to cream together the butter and sugar and you got you all have probably heard me talk about this before but I want to talk about it again my grandma used to make the best pound cake ever and she would have me from time to time cream the butter and sugar for her but only I was not using a stand-up mixer I was doing it by him with the wooden spoon and a wooden bowl and it felt like I was creaming the butter and sugar for her and she would say well she told me bring I would say cry mom am I done and she would say no I can still hear the sugar so she basically will say cream that butter and sugar until the sugar becomes nice and silent it's gonna give you a light and fluffy cake and really it's true so I cream this until literally you cannot hear the sugar okay so let's get started come in over here and I'm gonna start off on a low speed and then eventually I'll work the speed up a little bit and right now I don't know if you often hear but you can hear the sugar you can hear the granules up against the bowl but very shortly this it'll it'll become nice and silent and the butter will turn nice and bright and fluffy that's when we can incorporate all of the other ingredients and I'll be back okay everyone for butter silent and the butter has gotten really nice and fluffy you turn this off so you can see just what we got beautiful nice and fluffy and the butter has became somewhat pale and the sugars nice and silent gorgeous okay so the next thing that we're going to do is we want to start incorporating our eggs in our flour when you do the eggs and flour you want to do one egg at a time it's okay if two eggs Falls and you can't do nothing about that okay so don't stress out but it's preferred that you put one egg at a time because the egg is gonna help to mix in that dried flower because this recipe does not call for water or milk okay so what we're going to need to do because we need to crack our eggs let's get our egg scrapped into a separate Bowl always crack them into a separate Bowl so you can make sure that they're nice and fresh you would never want to crack a bad egg into your mixture because you would have to throw everything away so you always crack it into a separate bowl to make sure they're nice and fresh and if there's any shells you can fish them out right from here okay so we have our six large eggs there's four we're gonna crack the other two and then we're going to be ready to start putting in a little bit of flour at a time when I come right back okay everyone so we're going to need to put our leavening agent the leavening agent is what's going to make your pound cake pop up which is going to be our baking powder we're going to use two teaspoons of baking powder just like so and we're going to really mix this in you want to make sure that you take the time to mix it in you want this well incorporated in with your flower so I'm just gonna take my soft spatula just like so and really get it turned around in the flower this is all-purpose flour we are not using any other flour always all-purpose okay so I'm gonna mix this up and I'll be right back okay everyone so now what we can do let's go ahead and take some of the vanilla honestly I put as much as I wanted you can put as much as you want in I am a fanatic for vanilla and I just throw it with it I never measure it and it always turns out perfect so just get you some in there just like so nice and beautiful alright and we want to mix this up this is just going in with the butter and the sugar and the vanilla all right that's perfect that's nice and mixed now we can start incorporating some flour how much do I put in Gina well just put you a little bit in at a time okay make sure you don't waste it because you need the correct measurements of the flour in order for your cake to turn out right now we're aiming for one egg to go in like I said if two comes out don't stress out about it okay so we're going to bring this back down and stir it back up starting it all up once this comes together I'll be right back and we'll put more flour and more eggs okay everyone I'm going back in with a little bit more flour I really like to use this cake pan because it's bendable and it helps me to pour the flour in okay we're aiming for one egg to go in beautiful and then we're gonna mix once again keep in mind that you want to take your soft spatula at all times and start scraping those sides down that way everything can get well incorporated all right all right so now we're gonna do it once again this time I'm going in I'm scraping those sides in we really need this mixture to get incorporated take that off of there so everything can get mixed in once again we're going to go in more flour and one more egg just like so this recipe is literally a piece of cake it is and it tastes so good oh I can't wait till you taste this I'm gonna start this up and I'll be right back okay everyone so I've put the remainder of the flour in and we have just one more egg that needs to go in give there bad boy right in there just like so okay pound cake you don't want to mix it up too much mix it up until everything is incorporated and they turn it off I like to grease my hands okay everyone oiling the pan is really simple but it's much needed because you don't want to have the cake that won't slide out in your pan so here's what I like to do I always like to use the Crisco there has been time where I used to spray but I just find that using the Crisco this way this is just a napkin that I'm using and I'm gonna get this all over and especially the inside right here you all can see me get this greased up really well and when I come back I'm going to show you how I like to flour my pan okay everyone take a look at my pan you'll see that it's really greased really well but that's how I like mines so then I'm gonna go in with some flour okay and then over a pan I'm going to shake this excess look at this just like this and then I'm gonna take flour and I'm gonna put it onto the middle piece just like so so even that middle piece will be nice and flour when I come back we'll get our cake batter in here be right back okay everyone who want to put our batter in here just like so okay and you want to make sure try your best to put it in nice and evenly so you're gonna kind of go around in a circle just like this until you get the batter in nice and evenly now this batter is really heavy I'll be back when I get it all out of this bowl and into the pan okay everyone so now that we have the batter in it's kind of clumpy so we're gonna take a soft spatula and we're gonna just smooth it around a little bit so it can be nice and even you know it doesn't have this is not rocket science it's really easy to do and just kind of look at it from the side like this and you'll see what side is higher which side is lower I need to push a little bit of the are over this way okay so now that this is done this is going in the oven 325 degrees on the middle rack and when I come back I'm going to share with you all how to macerate some strawberries okay everyone now it's time to cut up some strawberries because at the end of this video I'm going to share with you all what we're gonna do with these strawberries so make sure you wash your strawberries always wash any produce that you bring home you want to wash off those nasty pesticides and also any germs you never know who's handled your veggies and fruit before you brought them home okay so now here's what we're gonna do we're just gonna simply just cut the green part off simple right that's because it is simple now these here you can cut them however you would like I'm just gonna do this I'm just gonna cut little squares okay it doesn't have to be perfect because these are going to macerate now let's talk about macerate mentary is not marinade you marinate meat and you macerate fruit how are we going to macerate him well we're going to put sugar and vanilla all over these beautiful strawberries and the strawberry is going to naturally release than it they amazing strawberry juice and the sugar will melt as well and you kind of get sort of like a strawberry syrup okay so that's what we're going to pour over top of our pound cake when it's done Oh cut a couple of these for you all on camera and then I'll do the others off camera like just talking about it is really making my mouth water I cannot wait to eat this what is the last time you all had homemade pound cake if you all never had it before or it's been a long time making some Gina young style you are going to adore it your family and friends and all of your loved ones oh they're gonna ask you they're gonna say gee they're gonna say where the heck did you get this recipe from and you're gonna tell on gina jung da-jung show me how but you are because this recipe is amazing and it's really easy you know like the time that it takes for this video it's really not the time that it takes to put this together because when I'm doing this video we're editing and we are pausing and different things and the video can be stretched out sometimes but when you throw it together and you're not recording a video it's really quick and simple you throw everything in there get that bad boy in the oven and you are ready for a dessert I tell you one thing my mouth can not stop watering because I can't wait when I come back that cake will be out of the oven and I'm going to share with you all how long it took to cook in the oven okay everyone time to macerate these beautiful strawberries take a look at them nice and chopped up now what the vanilla you'll need a whole lot just a little tiny bit that right there is gonna do the trick okay if you have a lot of strawberries you're gonna get a nice amount of sugar but honestly for those of you they want to cut down on the sugar feel free to use Splenda if you like or just cut down on the amount I'm gonna use 3/4 of a cup of white granulated sugar okay you can use a half a cup if you like okay so now we're just gonna this is macerating the strawberries and when I come back and show them to you they're gonna be somewhat liquidy and they're gonna have a beautiful strawberry sauce in the bottom of this bowl okay everyone take a look at this gorgeous pound cake Gina young spell if y'all enjoyed this video give me a thumbs up and if you haven't subscribed make sure you subscribe make sure you click on a notification bell so you can be notified every time Gina Young uploads one of these awesome recipes till your family and friends and everybody you know all about Gina young and what I'm doing in this kitchen okay everyone I want you all to look down into this beautiful cake I've sliced it not just how beautiful oh listen here let's go ahead and say a prayer so we can dive in it's gonna be a quick prayer Heavenly Father Lord Jesus we thank you for this beautiful meal Lord we thank you for your love time your mercy and your understanding we thank you Lord for the roof over I had the food the love the peace and the joy that you bring us every day Lord we thank you for that amen now I'm really excited I've sliced these two pieces why two pieces because I'm gonna eat it all I couldn't wait for this cake look how beautiful okay no remember we talked about these beautiful macerated strawberries and I spoke about the juice that would form here's what we have can you all see that beautiful strawberry juice that has formed the strawberries are nice and macerated so here's what you do put them right on that pan oh listen here make you some Gina Youngstown you won't be let down all right let's dive in right away I can't wait any longer I got dinner behind me we got wings and pizza I cannot wait all right we're we're we're right here oh oh you got that beautiful crunchiness on the outside strawberries just falling all over that pound cake take a bite let me know what you think about this recipe Jean a Youngstown I'm going in use my hands this is so good and as always god bless good night

Channel: In The Kitchen With Gina Young

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Keywords: #tutorial #stepbystep #poundcake #desserts #godisawesome #godisgreat #godisgood #stayhome

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Length: 18min 31sec (1111 seconds)

Published: Tue May 12 2020