Why do that?
- Cream -cheese pound cake from the Reddit Old recipes thread has a trick: it starts baking in a cold oven.
- This technique creates a particularly crispy crust, a fluffy crumb and a caramelized taste.
I’ve always been an old soul. As a child, I loved sitting in the attic through old clothes and photos, and my taste in films and music has always been suppressed on the classics.
The same applies to my favorite recipes. Those in the dog ear, colored, spiral -shaped cookbooks of my grandmother’s generation are some of my favorites. So when I noticed a retro recipe for cream cheese pound cake that made the rounds on Reddit, I knew it would be good. I was just not prepared for how good.
Reddit will not hold the flap because of this pound cake
Fortunately, there is a Reddit SowBthread for every niche interest, including retro recipes. r/old_recipes Has 433,000 active, opinion, and many of them shared their experiences with the now viral cream cheese pound cake.
In the original article, /U /_Popsikelfeet shared a handwritten recipe card with the deceptively simple recipe: “My aunt has made this cake since I was a little girl. This cake because it tastes home.”
The recipe and history immediately hit a chord, and hundreds of users posted their own experiences with photos of mistakes and triumphs together with memories of the food of the cake as children. One of Reddit’s human angels transcribed a more comprehensive version of this recipe in the comments. It feels like an entire community is converted around this cake.
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What is special about Cream Cheese Pound Cake?
The Reddit bakers who love these cakes rave about its fluffy, sweet interior and they are borderline obsessed with the crispy crust that forms above that becomes the floor because the cake is reversed.
/They say emphatically: “The crispy parts are so good. North Carolina, here and the people would ask my mother to make her a cold oven pound cake.” It is a feeling that repeats repeatedly.
Two most important things make this recipe remarkable. The first one is in the name: cream cheese. In a typical pound cake recipe, use every flour, sugar and butter a pound. Here you exchange half of the butter for cream cheese, giving the cake a velvety texture and a slightly narrower crumb. But there is another important trick that should not be overlooked: This cake begins to bake in a cold oven.
If you have never baked a cold oven cake, this seems to be contraguic. When I prepared this cake, I had to prevent myself from turning on the oven to preheat. This step towards the recipe is so important that some versions of this cake are called “cold oven pound cake” or variations of this topic.
Accordingly Southern Living“The trademark of a cold oven pound cake is a thick, golden brown crust with a taste that is reminiscent of roasted caramel.” The approach of the cold oven also gives the sourdough more time to act, which gives a large and fluffy cake, which makes it so nice as it is satisfactory to eat.
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How to make cream cheese pound cake
Despite its remarkable tricks, this is otherwise a very simple cake recipe. They start butter and cream cheese in a blender until they are completely combined. Next, give sugar and continue beating until the mixture is fluffy. Add the eggs individually and wait until it is present before adding more. Scratch the sides of the bowl and mix them completely before adding the flour and then turn to low speed and mix until the flour is currently incorporated. Add a teaspoon of vanilla last and mix them in gently.
Pour the dough into a greased pan and knock it onto the counter a few times so that the dough can settle. The original contribution says that you should use a flat tube tube or a bundle pan, but Reddit is full of bakers that have used all types of pans, including cupcake pans, which, according to a user, provide even more of this characteristic, crispy upper edge.
As soon as the cake is in the oven, turn the oven to 325 ° F and set a timer for 90 minutes. Although the original contribution does not contain any instructions for the cake from the pan (probably the most discouraging step), the users have let us cool in the pan in the pan for about an hour before inverting. Let cool completely before serving and save remnants in the fridge for up to five days.
