Where to buy pound cake mix without hydrogenated oils in Northern Virginia?

November 20, 2010 5:37 PM

Where to buy pound cake mix without hydrogenated oils in Northern Virginia?

I've tried Giant, Harris Teeter, Whole Foods, Shopper's Food Warehouse and Safeway. They all have either none or the Betty Crocker mix with hydrogenated oils, which takes it out of consideration.

I know such a thing exists, and I've bought it within the last few years, probably at Safeway or Harris Teeter, but no luck there today.

As a latch ditch alternative, if you've got a dead-simple recipe that's known-good, I'd appreciate that, too.

For stores, the closer to Arlington the better. Thanks.

posted by NortonDC to Food & Drink (12 answers total)

This is known-good -- my family's recipe, which we've made hundreds of times.

Cream 2 sticks margarine with 1 3/4 cups sugar until almost white. Add 5 whole eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Add 2 cups sifted flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg. Bake in a greased and floured tube pan at 350 degrees F, for 1 hour.
posted by Houstonian at 5:52 PM on November 20, 2010

(You can substitute butter for margarine, or use the margarines with non-hydrogenated oils.)
posted by Houstonian at 5:54 PM on November 20, 2010

How about Trader Joe's? Or a Natural Foods Store in your area?
posted by garnetgirl at 6:04 PM on November 20, 2010

King Arthur Flour makes a pound cake mix with no hydrogenated oils (ingredient list). You can order directly from them, or you might contact them to ask which stores in your area carry the product.
posted by needled at 6:08 PM on November 20, 2010

I'm fairly sure Trader Joe's had a pound cake mix at some point, though I can't guarantee that they have it right now. At the very least, they probably have a frozen pound cake with no hydrogenated oils in it.
posted by kerning at 6:17 PM on November 20, 2010

I can't guarantee it, but the Wegman's down in Dale City has a huge health foods section, so it might be worth a trip.
posted by crunchland at 6:39 PM on November 20, 2010

This is the pound cake recipe that my family loves.
posted by CathyG at 9:56 PM on November 20, 2010

simple cakes like these are almost always as easy to make from scratch as from a mix--a couple extra steps for measuring the individual ingredients, but that's about it. here's one from paula deen that looks like a snap: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/never-fail-pound-cake-recipe/index.html
posted by thinkingwoman at 10:30 PM on November 20, 2010

The Wegman's in Fairfax is probably the closest Wegman's.
posted by aloysius on the mixing boards at 5:28 AM on November 21, 2010

This is the easiest (and best) pound cake recipe I know:

Ingredients

4 cups all-purpose flour
3 cups sugar
2 cups butter (4 sticks), softened
1 cup milk
6 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 tsp almond extract

Directions:
Layer all ingredients in order given in bowl of stand mixer. Cover mixer with a towel to avoid a cloud of flour, and mix on med-high for 4 minutes (I have done this for 2 and it turns out fine). Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-in. tube pan -- or just spray it with baking spray.
Put pan into a cold oven, and turn it to 325 degrees F. Bake for about 1 hour and 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.
posted by mdiskin at 7:09 PM on November 21, 2010

Houstonian, should the oven be preheated or do you put it in a cold oven? If baking time is only an hour I'd guess preheated, yes? Thanks, folks!

(Making the pound cake that goes with this zuccatto. Ah, Thanksgiving!)
posted by onlyconnect at 11:58 AM on November 23, 2010

Yes, preheated oven.
posted by Houstonian at 5:14 PM on November 23, 2010