In the Kitchen With: The Easiest Mother’s Day Pound Cake – Design*Sponge

When my grandmother was alive, I don’t think there was ever a holiday we celebrated together without a pound cake (and a sweet potato pie) on the table. Though my grandmother’s were always vanilla pound cakes, when I tasted baker Robin Broughton-Smith’s Lemon Pound Cake, it was like being back at the holiday table. Just the texture of the buttery cake reminded me of the family gathering together, most everyone focused on the savory parts of the meal, while I couldn’t wait for the pound cake. Robin keeps this pound cake on the menu of her Philadelphia bakery, Sweet Nectar Dessert Kitchen, for similar reasons. She has shared a recipe to make it as a single-layer cake, so you don’t even need a special pan, like a Bundt pan. Make the person you consider “Mom” very happy this Sunday with this simple, yet elegant cake. —Kristina