it's even better!įirst, take the following out of the fridge to warm to room temperature: In fact, I must (modestly) say that, being homemade, AND made with King Arthur flour. While the following recipe doesn't hew to the original 1 pound each of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter (thus the name: pound cake), it does come close to Drake's version. I wasn't there to witness the event, but about 70 years later I enjoyed my first cellophane-wrapped slice of Drake's pound cake, and we've been buddies ever since. Drake baked his first vanilla pound cake. Drake's Cakes, one of the Northeast's classic snack food brands – proud purveyors of Yankee Doodles and Ring Dings – was born in 1888 when Newman E. Can't say that I'd turn my nose up at any of ’em.)īut back to cake. In order, they're chocolate chip, cookies ’n’ cream, pecan praline, cherry, chocolate almond, coffee, and rocky road. (OK, I know you're desperate to hear the rest of the top 10. (Thanks, I will!) Strawberry and Neapolitan (vanilla-chocolate-strawberry) round out the top five. After all these years of triple chocolate chunk ice cream, fudge brownies, extra-bittersweet single-source Criollo-bean bars, and mudslide pie, vanilla is STILL America's top flavor choice – at least when it comes to ice cream, which is the only online listing I've found for favorite flavors.Ĭhocolate is #2, as it's been for some time. But today the Choc-Dog's giving way to America's Favorite Flavor: vanilla.

Hey, all you chocolate fans out there: I'm sure you've enjoyed all the chocolate treats we've posted to this blog over the years.

And my very favorite vanilla cake is super-dense, golden pound cake. But over the years I've also developed a great appreciation for vanilla cake, the dessert equivalent of your little black dress: simple, classic, goes with everything. Did you know that Elvis' favorite cake, one he enjoyed on his birthday AND at Christmas every year, was vanilla pound cake?

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