Well historically a pound cake has a pound each of flour, sugar, butter, and eggs, but now the term is used more loosely and a cake that's made in a bundt pan and that is potentially a little denser than a fluffy layer cake, is now sometimes referred to as a pound cake. So, technically this isn't the original type of pound cake, but then again, those original pound cakes can, in my opinion, turn out dry and that's why over the years, people have adjusted the recipes and used the term more loosely.