Baking Pound Cake In Small Loaf Pans

Shiny metal pans and dark metal pans cook differently.

Baking pound cake in small loaf pans. The bake times and yields vary with the pan you use. It s seriously so good you guys so what are you waiting for. Divide batter evenly between three mini loaf pans. In small bowl combine flour baking powder and salt.

If you don t have a mini bundt pan you can use a mini loaf pan. If you don t have a mini loaf pan you can use a regular 9 5 inch loaf pan. She interviewed two culinary experts for this piece and grew up baking banana bread in pyrex loaf pans. Bake it in a loaf pan for about an hour and a half and the result is the most moist tender flavorful dense pound cake with a nice crisp outer layer.

Fill the pans 2 3 full with batter. In medium bowl combine melted butter sugar egg sour cream and vanilla extract. Gently fold in flour mixture. Turn the oven down 25 f when using a dark metal pan.

Know your pans and adjust accordingly. For my large pound cakes old fashioned blue ribbon pound cake and mile high pound cake which contains 4 cups of flour cooking it in a 9 13 inch pan will take longer to cook. For example a recipe that bakes a quick bread 9 by 5 loaf for 40 minutes should bake for 30 minutes when divided into mini loaf pans. Put the cookie sheet and filled mini loaf pans in the oven on the middle rack.

Dark pans cook the outsides of the cake faster than the shiny ones do. 15 chicken thigh recipes for the instant pot this collection of top rated recipes highlights this versatilty featuring chicken thighs with international accents from chicken curry to cacciatore chicken teriyaki to chicken tagine biriyani and butter chicken and much more. Don t allow the baking pans to touch each other or the walls of the oven. She has personally used the wilton loaf pans large and mini and also loves her le creuset heritage loaf pan for making quatre quarts the french version of pound cake.

Likewise banana bread baked in a cake pan will likely be drier than bread baked in a loaf which is more dense and bakes up with less surface area exposed. A full size bundt cake pan is a little too large. We would suggest baking one test loaf first and reducing the oven temperature about 25 degrees from the temperature in the recipe. Then we would bake for about 25 minutes then check with a toothpick every five minutes after that.

For pound cake recipes that make 1 loaf pan or 1 and 1 2 cups flour 1 and 1 2 cups sugar the cooking time for a 9 13 inch cake will be much less.