Review: A Bit Disappointed
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2012
I love baking and decided to buy this cookbook. I started with the Poor Man's Pound Cake since I had all the ingredients in my pantry.  The recipe tells you to use a greased loaf pan for baking. When I poured it in, it seemed very full but pound cake doesn't rise much so I put it in the oven. After 15 minutes bake time, smoke started coming out of my oven. I checked it and the cake batter was leaking over and into the bottom of the oven. I put a cookie sheet under it and from the amount overflowed into the cookie sheet, it looks like the measurements may work for two loaf pans. I will still try other recipes in this book, but beware on this recipe and split the pound cake batter to two loaf pans. My standard loaf pans are 8-1/2 x 4-1/2 x 2-1/2.The finished pound cake had a nice flavor but the texture when sliced, was closer to cornbread than cake and it seemed a bit greasy.  I will not make the pound cake recipe from this book again.