Simple pound cake

The idea of pound cake is to mix together butter, sugar, eggs and flour at 1:1:1:1 ratio. The best way is to weigh all ingredients. 

I prefer to start from eggs, because size is always different and to get it exactly say 200 g is difficult task.

Today I take 3 eggs - 170 g

Butter (room temperature) - 170 g

Sugar - 170 g

Flour - 170 g

pinch of salt

vanilla extract - 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Beat butter with sugar and salt in a mixer till light and fluffy, approximately 5-7 minutes.
2. Beat eggs one by one, do not rush, mixture has to absorb eggs. If you put too many eggs at once mixture will separate.
3. Add vanilla extract.
4. Finally mix in flour. You can do it using mixer (on the lowest speed) or by hand. Do not overmix or your cake will be dense.
5. Transfer to buttered loaf form and bake at 350 F until ready (put thin knife or wooden skewer in the center, if it comes out clean it's ready). Cooking time depends on many factors: the size of the cake, your oven, cake form you use... Mine was in the oven for 40 min.
6. When it's ready take out of the cake form and let cool on a rack.