18 Buttery, Moist Pound Cakes That Are Impossible to Resist
If you love cake that’s rich, buttery, and melt-in-your-mouth moist, these 18 pound cake recipes are made for you. Each recipe is packed with decadent flavor, from classic vanilla to creative twists that take this timeless dessert to the next level. Perfect for dessert tables, gifts, or a sweet treat any day, these pound cakes are irresistible from the first bite to the last. Get ready to discover your new favorite cake recipes that you’ll want to bake again and again!
Eggnog Pound Cake
Use that leftover eggnog to make the perfect holiday treat – a rich and tasty Eggnog Pound Cake complete with an eggnog glaze and crushed candied pecans.
Glazed Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake
This Glazed Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake is a moist, luscious, buttery, lemon pound cake made with beautiful fresh blueberries throughout and glazed with a sweet, tangy lemon icing. It is similar to the Iced Lemon Pound Cake found at Starbucks but with the addition of fresh blueberries.
Easy Cream Cheese Pound Cake
This easy Cream Cheese Pound Cake recipe makes a bundt cake that is incredibly moist and rich, with a subtle tanginess that perfectly balances the sweetness of the cake! Serve this cake with fresh berries and whipped cream for a decadent treat that’s perfect for any occasion!
Orange Pound Cake
A somewhat healthier version of Barefoot Contessa’s orange pound cake. A sweet, citrus cake perfect with tea.
Strawberry Pound Cake
Strawberry Pound Cake is a riff on my favorite (and award winning) Vanilla Pound Cake and Strawberry Cupcakes.
Brown Sugar Pound Cake
Brown Sugar Pound Cake is basically the tasty cousin of a traditional pound cake. The brown sugar changes the flavor of this recipe in all the right ways.
Chocolate Sauerkraut Pound Cake
Rich Chocolate Sauerkraut Pound Cake full of chocolate chips. Sounds crazy, right? But once you try it, you will deem chocolate cake with sauerkraut one of your favorites. I promise. It is moist, dense and fudgy and one of the best chocolate cakes I have ever sunk my teeth into.
Keto Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze
With just a few simple ingredients, indulge on this homemade Keto Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze. With just the right amount of zest and the sweetness of the glaze, it’ll be hard to stop with just one slice! Only 2 net carbs!
Key Lime Pound Cake
Key Lime Pound Cake is a riff on my favorite (and award winning) Vanilla Pound Cake. The cake itself is a little lighter than most pound cakes, but with buttery flavor and in this case, a gentle lime flavor. Think key lime pie in cake form.
Berry Buttermilk Pound Cake
This buttermilk cake only takes 15 minutes to prepare, and the rest of the work is done by the oven. So you can then sit back and relax until this beautiful bundt cake is ready to be devoured!
Peach Cobbler Pound Cake
This delicious Peach Cobbler Pound Cake is a moist pound cake topped with fresh peaches and features ribbons of cinnamon-flavored peach filling running through the center of the cake.
7 Up Pound Cake
Soda in a cake? Um, yes! All those little bubbles make fluffy little air pockets in this delightful 7 Up Pound Cake recipe!
Sour Cream Pound Cake
This Sour Cream Pound Cake is super flavorful, buttery, moist, and dense in the best way as only pound cake can be. It’s delicious it’s own or topped with macerated strawberries and cream, other seasonal berries or fruit, or lemon curd – no need for frosting or a sweet glaze with this one!
Easy Lemon Pound Cake
Lemon pound cake is a dense and delicious cake that’s easy to make and doesn’t require much effort at all.
Almond Pound Cake
This almond flavored cake will become your go-to pound cake recipe. SO delicious, moist and flavorful and the smell of almonds in the kitchen and almond flavor is purely unbeatable- just ask the 100+ five-star reviewers who’ve made it!
Apricot Brandy Pound Cake
This apricot brandy pound cake is so incredibly easy to put together, perfect for the holidays and absolutely delicious – a showstopper of flavors!
Mocha Pound Cake
Sour cream mocha pound cake recipe made in a loaf pan. This moist from scratch cake is flavored with chocolate and coffee and topped with a rich chocolate glaze. It’s like your favorite coffee shop drink in a cake.
Old Fashioned Whipping Cream Cake (Elvis’ Pound Cake)
This Whipping cream cake is a luscious take on pound cake that gets its extraordinary texture from heavy cream. Very moist, rich, and subtly sweet this is one of those vintage desserts that is making a comeback for a good reason. It’s delicious!
