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Golden, well-risen fruit pound cake in a rectangular pan

Pound cake with fridge fruit

Baking

Fruit pound cake: 250 g each of butter, flour and sugar, 4 eggs and whatever fruit is left in the fridge, baked for 45 minutes at 180 °C.

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“A pound cake with all the fruit that was sulking in the fridge!”: a zero-waste fruit pound cake, nicely golden and well risen.

The base is as simple as it gets: equal weights of softened butter, flour and sugar, four eggs added one at a time, and a spoonful of baking powder. No need to melt the butter or whip the egg whites.

The slightly tired fruit, cut into pieces, goes in at the end.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time15 min
  • Cook time45 min
  • Resting1 hr
  • Total2 hr
  • DifficultyEasy
  • CostBudget
  • Cooking methodBaked
  • Estimated cost$4.63 $0.58 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 15, 2026.

Ingredients

8 servings
  • $2.31
  • $0.40
  • $0.19
  • $1.60
  • $0.09
  • $0.04

Prices from US supermarkets for 4 of 6 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Take the butter out of the refrigerator 1 hour ahead.
  2. Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
  3. Beat the softened butter with the sugar and vanilla sugar. ≈ 4 min
  4. Add the eggs one at a time. ≈ 3 min
  5. Fold in the flour and baking powder, then the fruit cut into pieces. ≈ 4 min
  6. Pour into a buttered and floured pan and bake for 30 minutes, then check with a knife and bake 10 minutes longer if needed.

The bill

Pound cake with fridge fruit

  • 250 g butter$2.31
  • 250 g flour$0.40
  • 250 g sugar$0.19
  • 4 eggs$1.60
  • 2 packets vanilla sugar$0.09
  • 1 tsp baking powder$0.04

Total$4.63

that's $0.58 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Equipment

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Before you start

Ingredients

  • 250 g butter
  • 250 g flour
  • 250 g sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 packets vanilla sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Fruit from the fridge

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