Selasa, 30 Oktober 2018
She laughs and says “no I didn’t make a pound cake every week!” when we tease her about it now, but y’all, trust, she did!! Everybody knew that it didn’t matter when they came over, a fresh, homemade pound cake would always be waiting under that cake cover!
Five Flavor Pound Cake
By Divas Can Cook
Cook time
1 hour 20 mins
Total time
1 hour 20 mins
INGREDIENTS
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
½ cup butter-flavored shortening
3 cups granulated sugar
5 eggs, room temperature
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup half n half
½ cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon butter extract
½ teaspoon rum extract (Can add more if you really like rum flavor. I'm not a huge fan)
1 teaspoon lemon extract
1 teaspoon coconut extract
5 FLAVOR GLAZE
½ cup powdered sugar, sifted
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon butter extract
½ teaspoon rum extract
½ teaspoon lemon extract
½ teaspoon coconut extract
½ teaspoon milk (may need more)
INSTRUCTIONS
Grease and flour a bundt pan and set aside.
Preheat oven to 325 F.
In a large bowl, cream together butter, shortening and sugar.
Add in eggs, one at a time, being sure to mix thoroughly after each egg. Set aside.
In a medium-sized bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
Gradually mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients while alternating with the half n half and buttermilk. (Batter should be fluffy when done mixing)
Mix in extracts.
Spoon batter evenly into prepared pan.
Bake for 1 hour and 15-20 minutes.
Remove from oven and let cake cool until pan is warm to the touch.
Remove cake from pan and allow to finish cooling on cooling rack.
When cake is completely cooled, drizzle on the glaze if using.
To make the glaze, combine powdered sugar, extract and ½ teaspoon of milk.