Amaretto Pound Cake Paula Deen Food

AMARETTO POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Coat a ten-inch tube pan with solid vegetable shortening then either flour or sugar. I use granulated sugar because it doesn't leave white areas on the cake. Alternately, you can use Wilton Cake Release.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Sift flour, salt, and baking powder together.
• Cream butter, shortening, and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Mix in Amaretto.
• Add milk and flour alternately, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Pour batter into prepared tube pan.
• Bake for 1 hour 30 minutes. (Start checking at 1 hour 20 minutes, your oven may be hotter than mine.)
• Cool in pan on wire rack 30 minutes before inverting on a platter.

PAULA DEEN'S MAMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Grease & flour a 10" tube pan or bundt pan.
• Sift dry Ingredients.
• Cream butter & shortening together.
• Add sugar a little at a time.
• Cream until fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition to fully incorporate the eggs into the batter.
• Add dry ingredients and milk to mixture alternating; starting and ending with flour.
• Mix in vanilla.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until it passes the toothpick test.

LEMON AMARETTO CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Spray 3 (9-inch) round baking pans with nonstick baking spray with flour. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, and lemon zest at medium speed with a mixer until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in lemon juice. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour and baking soda. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture, beating just until combined after each addition. Stir in sour cream. Spoon batter into prepared pans. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire racks. Spread Amaretto-Almond Filling between layers. Spread Fluffy Meringue Frosting over top and sides of cake. Cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days.
• In a small bowl, combine gelatin and 3 tablespoons cold water; let stand for 2 minutes or until softened. In a small saucepan, bring ½ cup cream and liqueur to a boil over medium-high heat; reduce heat, and simmer for 1 minute. Add gelatin mixture, whisking to dissolve. Remove from heat; let stand for 10 minutes. In a large bowl, beat remaining 1½ cups cream at medium speed with a mixer until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, beating until stiff peaks form. With mixer running, slowly add gelatin mixture, beating until combined. Beat in almonds. Cover and chill for 4 hours, or refrigerate for up to 3 days.
• In a large bowl, beat egg whites at high speed with a mixer until stiff peaks form. Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan, cook sugar and ¾ cup water over medium-high heat until mixture reaches 248° on a candy thermometer. With mixer running at high speed, slowly pour hot syrup into egg whites. Beat mixture for 10 minutes until glossy, thick, white, and fluffy. Use immediately.

MAMA'S POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 °F.
• With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. To the bowl, add sugar a little at a time. Then, add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. In another bowl, stir dry ingredients together then add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.

AMARETTO POUND CAKE WITH FLAMBEED PINEAPPLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Butter a 5-by-10-by-2 1/2-inch loaf pan, and line with parchment paper. Butter lining; dust with all-purpose flour, tapping out excess.
• Whisk together both flours, baking powder, and salt; set aside. Put butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment; cream on medium speed until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time; mix until smooth. Mix in extracts. With mixer on low speed, mix in reserved flour mixture in three additions, alternating with two additions of milk; mix until smooth.
• Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake until a cake tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Transfer cake in pan to a wire rack. Poke holes all over top of cake with a wooden skewer. Pour liqueur on top; let cool completely.
• Invert cake to unmold; peel off parchment, and reinvert. Just before serving, cut cake into 3/4-inch slices, and top with flambeed pineapple and sauce.

ALMOND SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 °F.
• Butter and flour a tube pan and set aside. In the bowl of a mixer, cream 2 sticks butter and sugar together and then add sour cream. Sift flour and baking soda together. Add to creamed mixture, alternately with eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Add 1/2 teaspoon of almond and orange extracts and stir to combine. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Cool cake in pan for about 10 minutes and then unmold and cool completely on a wire rack.
• Almond Buttercream Frosting:
• With an electric mixer, cream 1 1/2 sticks butter in a large mixing bowl. Slowly beat in the confectioner's sugar until smooth and creamy and sweetened to your liking (about 2 minutes). Add 1 1/2 teaspoons almond extract and stir to blend. Frost cake when fully cooled. If you are not using the frosting immediately, store it, covered, in the refrigerator and then bring it to room temperature just prior to using.
• Yield: 3 cups
• Cook's Note: This is the basic recipe for a sour cream pound cake. This recipe would have to be modified to be made into a wedding cake.

ALMOND SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE (PAULA DEEN)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Butter and flour a tube pan and set aside.
• In the bowl of a mixer, cream butter and sugar together and then add sour cream.
• Sift flour and baking soda together. Add to creamed mixture, alternately with eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
• Add extracts and stir to combine.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• Cool cake in pan for about 10 minutes and then unmold and cool completely on a wire rack.
• Almond Buttercream Frosting: With an electric mixer, cream butter in a large mixing bowl. Slowly beat in the sugar until smooth and creamy and sweetened to your liking (about 2 minutes). Add almond extract and stir to blend.
• Frost cake when fully cooled. If you are not using the frosting immediately, store it, covered, in the refrigerator and then bring it to room temperature just prior to using. Yield: 3 cups.