Eggless pound cake recipe with step by step photos. Very easy to make, soft and rich eggless pound cake with fresh cherries. Pound cakes are very rich with buttery flavor and taste and egg is a main ingredient in pound cake recipe. Usually sweetened conndensed milk is used in eggless pound cake recipe but here milk powder is used. I saw this eggless pound cake recipe in a old cook book and it was a very interesting recipe. I had loads of fresh cherries handy and used them in this pound cake.
though I wanted to try this eggless pound cake recipe with whole wheat flour, I did not have enough wheat flour handy so used all purpose flour. I have also used some corn flour for some texture. I like to make rich and tasty tea cakes at home more than heavily iced cakes and I have shared quite a few eggless cake recipes here such as eggles tutti frutti cake, eggless coconut cake, eggless vanilla bean pound cake, vegan banana cake etc.
to make eggless pound cake recipe I have used a combination of all purpose flour and corn flour. You can easily make this eggless pound cake recipe with wheat flour too. The cake will be a bit more dense with wheat flour. Fresh cherries are in season and I put them in everything 🙂 I used fresh cherries in this pound cake recipe too. You can use chopped strawberries too instead of cherries. You can even make this pound cake plain without any fruit. Pound cakes are rich and with a buttery flavor, so they taste awesome when served a bit warm.
serve eggless pound cake warm or at room temperature. If you are making plain pound cake, you can serve it with some fruit compote too.
here is how to make eggless pound cake recipe with step by step photos. If you are looking for more eggless baking recipes do check butter cake, eggless vanilla muffins, vegan lemon muffins recipes.
step by step eggless pound cake recipe.
1. Preheat oven at 170C. Grease and dust a loaf pan and set aside.
2. Whisk butter and sugar well until light and creamy. Add vanilla extract and mix well. Add curd and mix well.
3. Sift flour, corn flour, milk powder, salt, baking powder, baking soda twice.
4. Add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients by parts and alternate with milk. The batter will be quite thick.
5. Add 1/2 cup pitted cherries to the batter and fold gently.
6. Pour the batter in the prepared cake tin and tap gently.Sprinkle the remaining pitted cherries if you prefer. Bake in the hot oven for 35-45 minutes. Let cool for 20 minutes. Slice and serve eggless pound cake.
eggless pound cake recipe card below:
eggless pound cake recipe with fresh cherries
1 CUP = 250 ml
Ingredients
- wet ingredients:
- 100 grams unsalted butter soft
- 1/2 cup yogurt
- 1 cup milk
- 3/4 cup sugar
- vanilla extract
- Dry ingredients
- 1 3/4 cup flour-3 tablespoons
- 3 tablespoons corn flour
- 1/2 cup milk powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- A pinch of salt
- Add on:
- 3/4 cup pitted cherries
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 170C. Grease and dust a loaf pan and set aside.
- Whisk butter and sugar well until light and creamy. Add vanilla extract and mix well.
- Sift flour, corn flour, milk powder, salt, baking powder, baking soda twice.
- Add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients by parts and alternate with milk. The batter will be quite thick.
- Add 1/2 cup pitted cherries to the batter and fold gently.
- Pour the batter in the prepared cake tin and tap gently.Sprinkle the remaining pitted cherries if you prefer. Bake in the hot oven for 35-45 minutes. Let cool for 20 minutes. Slice and serve eggless pound cake.
Notes
2. Do not substitute oil for butter
3. Baking soda cannot be left out or replaced with baking powder.
Nutrition
Surbhi says
Hi….The qty of flour is minus 3 tbsp or plus 3 tbsp….?
Harini says
Hi Surbhi, remove 3 tablespoons maida from the measured quantity and replace it with corn flour.
Nidhi says
Hi love the recipe came out amazing
To make it chocolate how much cocoa to add and how much maids to reduce
Also pls share eggless brownie recipe
Harini says
thank you for the feedback. To make this cake with cocoa powder just remove 3 to 4 tablespoons flour and replace it with unsweetened cocoa powder. Here is an eggless brownie recipe https://www.cookclickndevour.com/cocoa-brownies-recipe-eggless-and-whole-wheat-flour-cocoa-brownies-recipe/
Krish says
Hi Harini , Yum Cake Dear 🙏🏻
To get A Butter Cake Only If I Omit Cherries, any additional item or change to recipe ! Thank You God Bless 😇
Harini says
you can just leave out the cherries. thanks!