🍰 Easy Vanilla Pound Cake – Full Recipe

📝 Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour (maida)

• 1 cup cheeni (granulated sugar)

• 1 cup unsalted butter (room temperature, soft)

• 4 large anday (room temperature)

• 1/2 cup doodh (milk)

• 2 tsp vanilla extract / essence

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 1 chhoti si pinch namak

👩‍🍳 Banane ka Tarika (Step by Step)

1. Oven preheat karein
   Oven ko 170–180°C par preheat kar lein.
   Loaf pan ko butter ya oil laga kar halka sa maida dust kar lein (ya butter paper laga dein).

2. Butter aur sugar cream karein
   Ek bari bowl mein butter aur cheeni daal kar beater ya whisk se tab tak mix karein jab tak mixture light, pale aur fluffy na ho jaye.
   (Yeh step cake ko soft banata hai.)

3. Eggs add karein
   Ab anday ek ek karke add karein.
   Har egg ke baad achhi tarah mix karein.
   Phir vanilla essence daal dein.

4. Dry ingredients mix karein
   Alag bowl mein maida, baking powder aur namak chhaan (sieve) kar mix karein.

5. Dry + Wet combine karein
   Dry mixture ko butter mixture mein 2–3 parts mein add karein.
   Saath saath doodh thora thora daalte jaayen.
   Halkay haath se fold karein.

   ⚠️ Zyada mix mat karein, warna cake hard ho jata hai.

6. Pan mein batter daalein
   Batter ko loaf pan mein daal kar upar se halka sa smooth kar dein.

7. Bake karein
   Preheated oven mein 45–55 minutes bake karein.
   40 min ke baad toothpick test karein.

8. Check karein
   Toothpick agar clean nikle to cake ready hai.

9. Cool hone dein
   Cake ko 10–15 min pan mein rehne dein, phir nikaal kar wire rack par completely thanda hone dein.

✨ Tips for Perfect Pound Cake

• Butter aur eggs room temperature par hon

• Baking powder fresh ho

• Oven bar-bar open na karein

• Agar upar jaldi brown ho jaye to foil se cover kar sakte hain