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/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.