Classic Pound Cakes

Students will then explore how one basic recipe can be adapted to create three further different flavours:

• Lemon Drizzle Pound Cake
• Coffee & Walnut Pound Cake
• Ginger Pound Cake

The session is designed to develop confidence in basic cake-making techniques while demonstrating how simple changes to a base recipe can create a variety of finished products. With students learning how to:

• Explain the importance of the creaming method.
• Understand how to adapt a basic cake recipe into different flavours.
• Produce and recognise the characteristics of a well-baked pound cake.
• Apply different finishing techniques including drizzling, glazing and decorating.