![A glazed pound cake on a wire rack with a bowl of glaze on the side.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/roundup-pound-cake.jpg)
![A pistachio lover's pound cake on a wooden cutting board with a mesh bag of pistachios beside it.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/pistachio-pound-cake.jpg)
Pistachio Pound Cake
![A lemon pound cake resting on a round wire rack, drizzled with a white icing glaze](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/lemon-pound-cake-recipe.jpg)
Lemon Pound Cake
![A fancy Bundt Kentucky bourbon cake on a silver platter.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/kentucky-bourbon-cake-1200.jpg)
Kentucky Bourbon Cake
![Chocolate ganache being poured over a chocolate Bundt cake that is on a wire stand](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/chocolate-bundt-cake.jpg)
Chocolate Bundt Cake
![A glazed pumpkin pound cake on a plate--a pumpkin Bundt cake with a milk-sugar poured glaze.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/glazed-pumpkin-pound-cake.jpg)
Glazed Pumpkin Pound Cake
![A partially sliced loaf of cream cheese pound cake with lemon glaze.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cream-cheese-pound-cake-1200.jpg)
Cream Cheese Pound Cake
![A sliced apple tea cake on a wire rack, with one slice on a blue and white patterned plate with a fork on the side.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-tea-cake-1200.jpg)
Apple Tea Cake
![A blood orange pound cake on a wire rack with glaze and sugar syrup, three slices cut.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/blood-orange-pound-cake-1200.jpg)
Blood Orange Swirl Pound Cake
![A frosted brown sugar pound cake on a white plate on a cloth-covered picnic table.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/brown-sugar-pound-cake-1.jpg)
Brown Sugar Pound Cake
![A plate with a slice of pound cake with currants, and a cake stand in the background with the remaining cake.](https://leitesculinaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/eggnog-pound-cake-1200.jpg)
Published Mar 1, 2021, Updated Jul 10, 2023
These pound cakes may not have a pound each of butter, sugar, flour, and eggs like the classic cake, though they are the richest, densest, most butteriest cakes we've ever made.
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