Classic Ricotta Pound Cake

Name: Classic Ricotta Pound Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Cuisine: European, Italian, Mediterranean
Ingredients: 1 and ½ cups all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoon salt; 3/4 cup butter (at room temperature); 1 and ½ cups ricotta cheese; 1 and ½ cups granulated sugar; 3 large eggs (at room temperature); 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract (or lemon extract and zest from 1 lemon)

Instructions

Prep:15minCook:50min

Classic Ricotta Pound Cake is moist, buttery, and rich. This pound cake recipe yields a very dense but moist cake. It's a smaller pound cake that makes one loaf pan instead of the standard tube or bundt pan.

Updated at: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 06:46:10 GMT