This week: Pound cakes, recipes, giveaways and previews

This week I had planned to feature recipes for a healthy start to the new year. After having a personally difficult week compounded by the happenings in the US in regards to the attack on the Capitol and with COVID still running rampant worldwide, I went for comfort again.

Black & white pound cake from Food52

While I love baking and am known for my desserts, I am not one to crave sweet things and seldom have more than a bite unless it is something outstanding. That being said, I am mad for pound cake. My all time favorite pound cake is the Cream cheese pound cake. Smitten Kitchen’s version is the same as I have been making for decades and it is perfection.

Hidden heart Valentine’s pound cake from Boulder Locavore

We have over 3,300 recipes (online recipes) in our EYB Library for all manners of pound cake. This versatile dessert can: take on any flavor, be adorned with a tasty glaze, grilled in the summer with a fruit accompaniment, cubed and toasted and dipped into a chocolate fondue (or used as a sweet crouton), or made into a glorious bread pudding or trifle. The pound cake is the not-so-little black dress of cakes.

My favorite cookbook devoted to this dessert is Ultimate Pound Cakes: Classic Recipe Collection by Phyllis Hoffman DePiano (mother of the amazing Brian Hart Hoffman of Bake from Scratch). There are many cookbooks that share recipes for pound cakes in their dessert chapters but few that are just solely devoted to this tasty treat. A few other titles feature pound cakes in depth: The Pound Cake Book by Bibb Jordan as well as Cake Keeper Cakes: 100 Simple Recipes for Extraordinary Bundt Cakes, Pound Cakes, Snacking Cakes and Other Good-to-the-Last-Crumb Treats by Lauren Chattman and Elizabeth Alston’s Best Baking: 80 Recipes for Angel Food Cakes, Chiffon Cakes, Coffee Cakes, Pound Cakes, Tea Breads, and Their Accompaniments.

Grilled pound cake with blueberry cardamom compote from Red, White, and ‘Que: Farm-Fresh Foods for the American Grill by Karen Adler and Judith Fertig

Do you have a favorite pound cake recipe? Please share in the comments.

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The last week on the blog

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• Nathalie Dupree’s downsizing auction boasts many treasures
• Pioneering chef Albert Roux has died
• The grocery shopping blues
• Two women, 8000 cookbooks
• Lucky foods for the new year

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one.

This week I have posted giveaways for 

• Australian Food – Cookbook Giveaway
• Africola – Cookbook Giveaway

Other articles of interest:

• Best of the Best of 2020
• The best cookbooks of 2020 by the experts
• January 2021 Great Big Cookbook Club Roundup (updated again this week)
• The Kindle cookbook deals and 2021 cookbook preview are being updated frequently – so many exciting books headed our way
• Ideas on how EYB can work better for you

Jenny and the EYB Team

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Featured Recently Indexed Titles

• Ovenly, Updated Edition: Sweet and Salty Recipes from New York’s Most Creative Bakery by Agatha Kulaga and Erin Patinkin – features eight new recipes. Now is your time to grab a copy of this highly praised cookbook.
• We Are La Cocina: Recipes in Pursuit of the American Dream by Caleb Zigas and Leticia Landa
• Magnolia Kitchen: Inspired Baking with Personality by Bernadette Gee
• Speedy BOSH!: Super Quick. Incredibly Easy. All Plants. by Ian Theasby and Henry David Firth
• Clodagh’s Weeknight Kitchen: Easy & Exciting Dishes to Liven Up Your Recipe Repertoire by Clodagh McKenna
• Kid in the Kitchen: 100 Recipes and Tips for Young Home Cooks by Melissa Clark

Member Photo of the Week

Sour lime and pomegranate chicken wings from Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors from My Israeli Kitchen by Adeena Sussman submitted by member Maefleur

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Featured Online Recipe

Go-to vanilla pound cake from Food52

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently we uploaded our 864th EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: To learn why you cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to your Bookshelf, please read this Help page.

• 3 recipes from Behind the Bar: 50 Cocktail Recipes from the World’s Most Iconic Hotels by Alia Akkam
• 3 recipes from Cocktails and Canapes: How to Throw the Very Best Party, Whatever the Size by Kathy Kordalis
• 3 recipes from Rustic Farmhouse Slow Cooker: 75 Hands-Off Recipes for Hearty, Homestyle Meals by Alli Kelley
• 3 recipes from Fantastic Filled Cupcakes: Kick Your Baking Up a Notch with Incredible Flavor Combinations by Camila Hurst

Cookbook Giveaways
Click on the Bold Blue Link Below to Enter

• Enter our US (and worldwide) giveaway to win a copy of Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter by Nigel Slater – Expires January 16th, 2021
• Enter to win our giveaway for 3 copies (US) and 1 copy (worldwide provided by Eat Your Books) of Simply: Easy Everyday Dishes from the Bestselling Author of Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour – Expires January 16th, 2021

*Publishers thank us for our continued patience while awaiting the arrival of prizes as warehouses are not operating at full capacity yet and it appears things will only get slower as the winter season takes hold. The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways.

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