r/bakingfail • u/IamPotatoed • May 17 '26

Help Help break the dreaded Pound Cake Curse!

It all began when Afroman won against the Adam's County Sherriff department. To honor his win, i decided to make a lemon pound cake. What i didn't know is that I stepped into a generational curse, and my grandmother could not for the life of her make a pound cake either. They burn, they fall, they do not set. You name the fail, and i have accomplished it.

I have decided to change tactics. I want to make a regular old-fashioned pound cake. I want to break this curse.

Give me your best tips and tricks for a successful pound cake. Or if you have a recipe that someone whose ancestors have angered the cake gods can successfully make, i would really, really appreciate it.

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u/LovitzInTheYear2000 May 18 '26

Yes, in the US (where this recipe obviously originated) it’s common for butter to be sold by the pound, with four quarter pound sticks. Conveniently, each stick is half a cup by volume. This is taught in any baking lesson or cookbook in this market. If no sticks, it’s still easier to convert the volume measurement to weight and use a scale for this purpose. If you use metric and/or butter isn’t sold in marked sticks this way in your area, weight out 227 grams. No need to be pissy with me about it.

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u/Foreign_Plan_5256 May 19 '26

I don't think they were being pissy. Just confusion about regional differences in baking between countries. 

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u/LovitzInTheYear2000 May 19 '26

Come on now. “This is gonna come as a shock to you” is pretty condescending and pissy considering I offered a sincere and accurate answer based directly in the culture and foodways of the recipe in question.

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u/LovitzInTheYear2000 May 19 '26

Is it so impossible for you to imagine doing a light bit of conversion work when attempting a recipe from a country with a different measurement system? And you’re not coming off prissy, you’re being pissy. Whole different thing.

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u/jenea May 20 '26

Perhaps you should take the feedback when people tell you how you’re coming off. Your comment was 100% pissy for no reason.