Article: Pound cake a well-traveled favorite

Pound cake a well-traveled favorite

By BEV BENNETT

Sunday, December 22, 2002

Pound cake is the white sofa of the dessert world: sophisticated, classic and easy to accessorize. And this may be the year for pound cake, just as it is for understated white and neutral home furnishings. If you've avoided pound cakes, preferring a "knock-'em- dead'" chocolate extravaganza, you've been missing out on the luscious flavor and texture that an excessive and essential amount of butter, sugar and eggs can produce.

A well-made pound cake has a texture as fine as $200 bed sheets and a flavor as delicate and rich as silk brocade. But even if you couldn't care less about elegance, you'll be sold on how ...

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