Homemade Butter Pound Cake

This stunning homemade butter pound cake with the heart surprise inside that is revealed when you cut into it just makes me weak in the knees. I mean, just look at all of that wonderful chocolate glaze and you just know that this decadent dessert is going to be amazing!

Make Your Heart Pound Cake

I’m so in LOVE with this beautiful Valentine’s Day cake!! Yes, it’s double the baking, but it’s also double the reward. With the strawberry pound cake hearts baked into the vanilla pound cake in a bundt pan, everyone is going to love the magical reveal when you slice into it.

And let’s not forget the amazing flavor! I mean, there’s literally over a POUND of butter (I mean it is called butter pound cake) in this cake… and it’s totally worth every bite!

How long to prepare the cakes?

This wonderful bundt cake can be made in one day, but don’t fret – you can elect to make it over a few days OR, you can add some red food coloring to a pound cake mix for the hearts. Just skip making two loaves from scratch. Really, I know how busy life can be and how much time moms really have…

This recipe can easily be made over a few days leading up to February 14th.

On the 12th, make the strawberry pound cake. Make it after dinner and let it cook for an hour while you get the kids into bed. It’ll cool overnight and be ready to be cut the next day.

On the 13th, make the homemade butter pound cake. The kids will enjoy cutting out the hearts and then eating the scraps with some ice cream for dessert.

On Valentine’s day, simply make your ganache and pour it over your cake just before serving to your family.

What is “Real Butter”?

Real butter starts off with heavy cream or a high fat milk. That’s it! Sometimes there’s salt added but for this pound cake, we want to control the amount of salt, so we use unsalted butter.

Generic Butter has heavy cream, but it can also contain water. All butter sold in the US must be at least 80% fat, but organic butter will always have a higher percentage of milk fat than generic.

I’ve had major sugar cookie FAIL not once, but twice because I was using store brand butter. It turned out that the water content of generic butter made all the difference in cut out cookies holding their shape or not. It also makes a difference in chocolate ganache.

Do you like that beautiful, shiny, glossy, chocolate drizzle on your desserts? Use real butter.

What is Grass-fed Butter?

Grass-fed butter comes from cows who eat a diet high is GRASS. They are out grazing in fields and not penned up. Grass-fed cows produce milk that are richer in vitamin K2 and have higher omega-3 fatty acid.

Mr. Quart is a butter snob. He loves his Grass-Fed  Butter. He’s gone so far as to order butter from New Zealand in the winter. But, I must admit, it makes a HUGE difference.

The taste of a European-style butter on toast is just decadent. Spreading garlic butter on a loaf of bread to go with your Italian dinner. From cooking scrambled eggs to sauteed chicken to rich sauces, butter makes a big difference. And of course, this homemade butter pound cake is no exception.

So, go ahead and splurge on good quality butter. Especially if your baking recipes seem to be falling a little flat. It’s worth a few extra bucks for the grass-fed, organic butter.

Here’s a few more Surprise Inside cakes for more seasons:

• Surprise Inside Christmas Tree Cake
• Rainbow Tie-Dye Surprise Cake
• Easter Surprise Inside Dotted Cake
• Monster Eye Surprise Inside Cake for Halloween
• And for simply stunning cakes, check out MilkMoonKitchen on Instagram! WOW!!

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