A lot has been going on in the world and I’ve just been sitting back and taking it all in…
I’m not one to dwell on these things but I lost a huge piece of my childhood with the passing of an amazing actor/comedian.
Cue the comfort food (and childhood movie marathon).
And what food is more comforting than pound cake? The best thing about this pound cake is that the sweet cake will absorb my tears and their salt will perfectly complement the cake’s sweetness.
When I saw this recipe for a pound cake using sweetened condensed milk as one of the key ingredients and a food processor as the main mixing tool, I wasn’t 100% sure what to expect. However, since pound cake is basically impossible to mess up as it is, I didn’t really see how it could possibly go wrong.
So, what should you expect?
Once in the oven, the sweetened condensed milk in this batter fills your home with the aroma of dulce de leche caramel. Once out of the oven, a hint of caramel flavor of permeates this tender pound cake. It doesn’t have an overwhelming caramel flavor, but you can definitely pick up on the caramelly notes in the cake (especially in the browned edges).
So wrap yourself in a warm, caramel-scented hug (from the inside) with some condensed milk pound cake.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (8 oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 3 large eggs, room emperature
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325° F. And prepare an 8 by 5-inch loaf pan with parchment and baking spray (or flour and butter) and set aside.
- Whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder and set aside.
- Add butter and sugar to a food processor and process until light and fluffy, scraping down the sides and bottom as needed. Add the condensed milk and pulse until well incorporated. Add eggs and vanilla and pulse again to combine.
- Add dry ingredients and pulse just until incorporated, being careful not to over-mix, scraping down the sides and bottoms if needed, and pour into prepared loaf pan.
- Bake until the top is dark golden brown and a tester inserted in the center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Cool 20 minutes in pan, turn out onto rack to finish cooling.
Notes
Recipe from Boy Meets Bowl
I clicked the Make Recipe button, but nothing came out of my computer. Am I doing something wrong? I have a Mac. And yes, I checked the cd drive. I’m not stupid!
Movita, you have to hold down the shift button while you pour the condensed milk over the keyboard. I just did that and it worked.
Thanks, Eggton! That must be the trick Movita was missing! Let us know how it works for you, Movita! Just make sure not to ruin the computer screen in case you actually need to make the recipe (and reference this post) 🙂
Maybe it’s because you’re in Canada?
This sounds phenomenal. Condensed milk is so magical in baked goods — I just bet it’d be insane in this pound cake. (And Movita and Eggton — you two are the best.)
Aw thanks! And seriously, Movita and Eggton. YOU GUYS KILL ME!
This week gets any crazier, and this is the Wee One’s birthday cake. I mean, i’ll slap some frosting on it or something, but seriously. it’s beautiful. and i want it. i don’t know why i’m so attracted to things using sweetened condensed milk! that – like the aforementioned brilliant actor and comedian who just passed and whom i can’t stop crying about sporadically – is a childhood thing, i guess.
I was making it and thinking how crazy it was to have the sugar and sweetened condensed milk and thinking that there was NO WAY I would possibly be able to eat it…. but then I couldn’t stop eating it and I was in whole different problem…
I don’t think I’ve, sadly, ever made a pound cake. But if I’m going to make a pound cake, it definitely needs to be this one with condensed milk- seriously, that sounds amazing. I’m making this soon. Nate’s had a rough couple weeks and I think he could use a nice little treat.
Amy. Darling. If you’ve never made a pound cake then you’ve never truly lived! You must make this one post-haste! I’ve heard that pound cake has actually been know to cure coughs and ease pregnancy pains. 🙂