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MARTHA BAKES: Pound Cake

Lemon pound cake. Pound cake offers nearly unlimited opportunities for adaptation. Martha takes the viewer through variations.
Courtesy of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Lemon pound cake. Pound cake offers nearly unlimited opportunities for adaptation. Martha takes the viewer through variations.

Airs Saturday, August 31, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

Martha Stewart (pictured) shares the best baking tips and techniques, giving home cooks the confidence to create delectable baked goods — from scratch.
Courtesy of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Martha Stewart (pictured) shares the best baking tips and techniques, giving home cooks the confidence to create delectable baked goods — from scratch.

Learn to create the finest desserts and goodies in your own home. In the series MARTHA BAKES, Martha Stewart shares the best baking tips and techniques, giving you the confidence to create delectable baked goods — from scratch — in your own kitchen.

Martha’s updated versions of the classics set the standard, while her uses of flavors and ingredients add new angles to some familiar favorites.

"Pound Cake" - Pound cake makes excellent use of the basic building blocks of baking — butter, sugar, eggs and flour — and offers nearly unlimited opportunities for adaptation (incorporating cream cheese or semolina, for example).

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In this episode, Martha takes the viewer through variations, starting with the most traditional and finishing with a version inspired by her travels through Asia.

Visit MarthaStewart.com to get the recipes for Classic Pound Cake, Lemon Pound Cake, Cream Cheese Pound Cake and Semolina Cake.

All of the recipes from the series MARTHA BAKES are available online.

Pound Cake

"Pound cake makes excellent use of the basic building blocks of baking—butter

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