Almond Cream Cheese Pound Cake Food

ALMOND CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Lightly mist a 10-inch tube pan with vegetable oil spray then dust with flour.
• Shake out excess flour and set pan aside.
• Place cake mix, cream cheese, eggs, water, sugar, oil, vanilla and almond extract in large mixing bowl.
• Blend with an electric mixer on low speed for 1 minute.
• Stop the machine and scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
• Increase the mixer speed to medium and beat 2 minutes more, scraping the sides down again if needed.
• The batter should look well blended.
• Pour batter into the prepared pan, smoothing it out with the rubber spatula.
• Place pan in the oven.
• Bake cake on center rack of preheated 350 degree oven until it is golden brown and springs back when lightly pressed with your finger, 35-40 minutes.
• Remove pan from oven and place it on a wire rack to cool for 20 minutes.
• Run a long, sharp knife around the edge of the cake, invert it onto a rack and then invert it onto a serving platter so that it is right side up.
• Slice the cake while it is still a little warm.
• Freeze this cake, wrapped in aluminum foil, for up to 6 months. Thaw cake overnight on the counter before serving.

CHERRY-ALMOND CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Add cherries and kirsch to a small bowl; let stand for 20 minutes.
• Position oven rack in the center of oven; preheat to 325°; grease the inside of a 10-inch Bundt pan; dust the pan with flour.
• Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a bowl; whisk to blend and set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric stand mixer, using the paddle attachment, beat the butter and cream cheese on medium speed until creamy, about 1 minute.
• Gradually add the sugar and beat on med-high speed until well blended and light, about 2 minutes.
• Add in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
• Beat in the vanilla and almond extract.
• Add the flour mixture at low speed, mixing just until blended.
• Add in cherries, along with any remaining liquid, and mix until blended.
• Scrape batter into prepared pan.
• Bake the cake for 55-65 minutes, until a pick comes out clean.
• Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
• Dust the cake lightly with powdered sugar right before serving.

CREAM CHEESE ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Set oven to 325°F (set oven rack to second-lowest position).
• Generously grease a tube or bundt pan with softened shortening.
• Coat/sprinkle the insides of the pan with about 1/4 -1/3 cup ground almonds.
• In a medium bowl, cream the butter and cream cheese until fluffy.
• Add in the sugar and beat for about 3-4 minutes.
• Add in the eggs and extract, beat until well combined.
• In another bowl, sift together flour, salt and baking powder.
• Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture and beat well.
• Add in about 1/2 cup ground almonds and mix well to combine.
• Carefully spoon the batter into pan on top of the almonds.
• Bake for about 1 hour and 15 minutes (careful not to over bake).

ALMOND CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Bring cream cheese to room temperature. (This will keep the batter from becoming lumpy.).
• Place all ingredients in large mixing bowl.
• Mix with electric mixer on low for one minute until all combined.
• Mix at medium for two minutes.
• Batter should look uniform and thick.
• Bake in a greased and floured 10 inch tube pan at 350°F for about 45 minutes or until cake springs back when touched.
• Serve alone or with berries and sweetened whipped cream.
• The cake is rich on its own.

ALMOND-CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE FROM SCRATCH

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F Spray fixed-bottom 9 1/2- or 10-inch tube pan with cooking spray. Line bottom with parchment paper; spray paper.
• Whisk flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. Beat butter and cream cheese in large bowl at medium speed until combined. Beat in sugar 3 minutes or until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs in 3 parts, beating well after each addition. At low speed, beat in almond extract and vanilla until blended. Slowly beat in flour mixture just until incorporated. Spoon batter into pan; sprinkle with almonds, pressing gently into batter.
• Bake 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes or until wooden skewer inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack 20 minutes. Run small knife around edges and tube; invert cake onto wire rack. Remove parchment paper; turn almond-side up. Cool completely. (Cake can be made 3 days ahead.) Store at room temperature.

STRAWBERRY ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together the granulated sugar and butter. Add the eggs 1 at a time, mixing after each addition. Add the sour cream and almond extract and mix to combine. Turn the mixer to low and gradually add the flour and salt and mix until well combined, scraping the bowl. Fold in the sliced strawberries.
• For the topping: Combine the brown sugar, flour, butter and salt in a medium bowl and cut together using 2 knives or a pastry cutter until it resembles crumbs. Mix in the almonds.
• Generously butter a 10-inch cast-iron skillet. Pour the batter into the skillet and even out the surface. Press the remaining halved strawberries into the surface of the batter cut-side down, leaving them mostly exposed. Scatter the crumble over the top of the batter. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center does not come out totally clean but isn't wet with batter either, about 1 hour. Let the cake sit in the skillet for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, make the glaze.
• For the glaze: Whisk together the confectioners' sugar and lemon juice. Using a fork or whisk, drizzle over the cake. Serve directly out of the skillet.

ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F.
• Butter and flour a loaf pan or small square pan (8"x8").
• Cream the butter and sugar.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time.
• Beat in the almond extract and the water.
• Stir together the flour, ground almonds and baking powder.
• Stir this into the wet ingredients.
• Pour evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 45 minutes for a loaf pan.
• Bake for 50 minutes in the square pan, or in either case until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.

CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (160 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Beat butter and cream cheese together with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Beat sugar into butter mixture until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add the eggs two at a time, allowing each pair of eggs to blend into the butter mixture before adding the next. Beat in vanilla and almond extracts with the last eggs. Pour the flour and nutmeg into the bowl and beat until just incorporated. Pour the batter into the prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 80 minutes. Check for doneness after 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• *note:Please do not be tempted to use low fat anything.
• The cake will fall and be very gummy.
• Cream butter and cream cheese for 5 minutes.
• Slowly add sugar and beat thoroughly.
• Add eggs one at a time beating well after each egg.
• Add flour and flavoring, Mix until well blended.
• Grease and lightly flour a 10" tube pan and pour batter into pan.
• Place cake in a cold oven.
• Bake for 1 1/2 hour at 285 degrees.
• No matter how tempted DO NOT OPEN THE OVEN DOOR WHILE BAKING!
• Cool for 20 minutes in pan after removing from oven.

CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Ingredient Note:For this recipe, be sure to use Neufchatel-type cream cheese that has 1/3 less fat than regular, not "light" cream cheese, which has less fat.
• Preheat oven to 325°F Coat a 12-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray and dust with flour.
• Whisk all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk whole eggs, buttermilk, oil, corn syrup and vanilla in another medium bowl until well blended.
• Beat egg whites in a large clean bowl with an electric mixer on high speed until light and foamy. Gradually beat in 1/2 cup sugar until stiff glossy peaks form.
• Beat butter and Neufchatel in a large bowl until creamy. Add the remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar and beat, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Alternately add the flour and buttermilk mixtures, beating until just smooth. Fold in about one-third of the egg whites with a rubber spatula until just smooth and no white streaks remain. Fold in the remaining egg whites. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, spreading evenly.
• Bake the cake until a wooden skewer inserted into it comes out clean and the top springs back when touched, 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Loosen the edges with a knife and turn out onto the rack; let cool for at least 1 hour more before slicing.