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How To Make Pound Cake. First, prepare your oven and loaf pan. Preheat the oven to 350 F degrees and generously spray the loaf pan with cooking spray. Mix in the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs in one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Mix in the vanilla extract and salt.

Why Half Pound Cake you might ask? Because this recipe uses 1/2 pound of each basic ingredient so that it only makes 1 loaf of poundcake (because I cannot eat an entire recipe of pound cake fast enough to warrant making it full-scale!)

A particular recipe I would like to cut in half is Red Velvet Cake. (I would then just put all the batter into one cake pan instead of 2.) Show activity on this post. I have halved cake recipes before without issue. The most complicated thing to worry about is halving an odd number of eggs, but this question addresses that.

Because this recipe uses 1/2 pound of each basic ingredient so that it only makes 1 loaf of poundcake (because I cannot eat an entire recipe of pound cake fast enough to warrant making it full-scale!)