Ultimate Pound Cakes Revised and Expanded Edition: Classic Recipe Collection

Indulge in the unabashed success of the Ultimate Pound Cakes: Classic Recipe Collection with a new and updated edition that is proof this popular no-fuss dessert never goes out of style.

In this expanded version of the previously sold-out cookbook, you’ll find additional recipes from Phyllis Hoffman DePiano’s treasure trove of pound cakes, Bundts, tube cakes, mini loaves, and more. Preserving her repertoire and adding favored flavor notes, from robust fig to spiced rum-pecan and luscious toasted coconut, this book will keep you baking for years to come. A new foreword by Brian Hart Hoffman, editor of Bake from Scratch magazine, shares details of his mother’s passion for this delectable treat and its homestyle approach of a pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Not only will these cakes dazzle your dinner guests, but they make fabulous gifts for any occasion

Some of the new recipes included in this revised and expanded edition:

• Blackberry Buttermilk Pound Cake
• Green Tomato Bundt Cake
• Peach Cobbler Pound Cake
• Coffee Pound Cake
• Kentucky Browned Butter Bundt Cake
• Hummingbird Bundt Cake
• Churro and Chocolate Pound Cake
• Almond Poppy Seed Pound Cake
• Toasted Coconut Tres Leches Pound Cake
• Spiced Rum-Pecan Pound Cake
• Fig Pound Cake Crumb Bars

Phyllis Hoffman DePiano enjoyed many passions from sewing to hosting fabulous dinner parties where the grand finale was a magnificent homemade pound cake. An accomplished author of several books, including Gracious Spaces, Monograms & Antique Linens, The Entertaining Cookbook, and the Tiny Book series of cookbooks, Phyllis founded Hoffman Media in 1983 as a single mother working from her Birmingham, Alabama, home. Her innate love for an elegant lifestyle inspired all those around her and her business. Hoffman Media, now run by her sons Brian Hart Hoffman and Eric Hoffman, encompasses 83 Press as well as Bake from Scratch, Victoria, Taste of the South, TeaTime, The Cottage Journal, Southern Lady, and Southern Home.

A new foreword by Brian Hart Hoffman, editor of Bake from Scratch magazine and Hoffman Media’s president and chief creative officer, shares details of his mother’s passion for this delectable treat and its homestyle approach of a pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Not only will these cakes dazzle your dinner guests, but they make fabulous gifts for any occasion.