Article: Cream cheese poundcake, fresh banana loaf cake, lemon meringue cake, classic white cake layers.

CREAM CHEESE POUNDCAKE

Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 65 minutes

Yield: One 10-inch tube or bundt cake, about 16 servings

"Many poundcakes are baked as loaves, but I find that poundcakes have an excellent texture and superior lightness when they are baked in a tube pan," Nick Malgieri writes in "Perfect Cakes." "A tube pan also bakes the cake more quickly because of the heat conducted into the center of the pan through the tube, and this makes for a moister cake."

Cake batter:

2 cups bleached all-purpose flour (spoon flour into measure cup and level off)

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