Bourbon Pound Cake 4 12 Pounds Food

BOURBON BROWN SUGAR POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Grease and flour a 12-cup bundt pan.
• In a medium bowl, combine flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
• Combine the milk, vanilla, and 4 tablespoons bourbon.
• In large bowl, with mixer at medium speed, beat brown sugar and 1/2 cup sugar until lump free.
• Add butter and beat at high speed until light and creamy, about 5 minutes.
• Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• At low speed, alternately add flour mixture and milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake 1 hour and 20 minutes or until cake springs back when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Remove cake from pan.
• Frosting:.
• In small bowl, combine orange juice, 1/3 cup sugar, and 2 tablespoons bourbon.
• Brush mixture all over warm cake.
• Cool cake completely.
• Garnish with berries or other fruit for a pretty presentation.

BOURBON POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together.
• Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time.
• Fold in half the flour, then fold in the milk, then the remaining flour, followed by the bourbon and vanilla.
• Pour the batter into two lightly greased and floured 9-inch loaf pans and run the blade of a knife through the batter in an X pattern from corner to corner of the pans to eliminate air bubbles.
• Place the pans in the center of a cool oven, leaving a space between them.
• Turn the oven to 325F and bake for about 1 hour, until a wooden skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• Turn off the oven and let the cakes cool in the oven for 10 minutes.
• Open the oven door and cool for 30 minutes.
• Turn the cakes out onto a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.

CREAM CHEESE BOURBON PECAN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Grease and flour a 12 cup tube or bundt pan.
• Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until the yellow yolk disappears.
• Sift together flour and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with bourbon, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Beat batter at low speed just until blended after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla and pecans.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 12-cup tube pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes to 1 hour and 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes.
• Remove from pan; cool completely on wire rack.

PEACH-BOURBON UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Combine 3/4 cup sugar and 1 1/2 tablespoons water in a 10-inch ovenproof skillet and stir until the mixture looks like wet sand. Cook over medium-high heat, gently swirling the pan occasionally but not stirring, until light amber, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and arrange the peaches in concentric circles over the caramel. Drizzle with the bourbon; set the skillet aside.
• Whisk the flour, ground pecans, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Beat the butter and the remaining 1 cup sugar in a large bowl with a mixer on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition, then beat in the vanilla. Reduce the mixer speed to low; add the flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour, and mix until just incorporated. Pour the batter over the peaches and spread evenly.
• Transfer the skillet to the oven and bake until the cake is golden and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 50 minutes. (Cover loosely with foil if the cake is browning too quickly.) Let sit 15 minutes, then invert onto a platter and let cool completely.

BOURBON POUND CAKE .... (4-1/2 POUNDS)

Steps:

• 1. Pre-heat oven to 350 F. Butter a 10 inch tube or bundt pan. Dust the pan with flour and tap out the excess. Set the pan aside. NOTE: The larger white bowl, shows flour sifted... compared to the cup of unsifted flour. It does make a difference, when called for.
• 2. Sift the flour,baking powder,salt, cinnamon,nutmeg,allspice and ginger. Set aside. In a large bowl and electric mixer, cream the softened butter, with the brown and white sugars until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add the eggs,one at a time beating...then add the 2 egg yolks. Beat well and set batter aside. Stir the bourbon and vanilla into the cup of measured milk.
• 3. With the mixer set on it's lowest speed, add the flour mixture to the batter with the milk mix, beginning and ending with the flour. Beat just until the flour and liquids are absorbed.
• 4. Transfer the all to the pre-pared baking pan. Smooth the top and set the cake in the oven. Bake for 1-1/4 hours or until tested with a skewer inserted comes out clean.
• 5. Cool the cake in the pan for 20 minutes, then invert it onto a wire rack and turn it right-side up to cool completely. Cover the cake with a paper towel, then a clean kitchen towel and let it mellow!..for 24 hours!
• 6. Dust it with powdered sugar.. or make a simple glaze...Bourbon???? your choice. Use a serated knife to cut pieces a little smaller than normal...for serving. Served with ice cream and or berries... would be great. Recipe from The Boston Globe. Pictures are mine. Please enjoy your cake......

BOURBON PECAN POUND CAKE II

Steps:

• Butter and flour a 12-cup tube pan or Bundt pan.
• Position oven rack in the lower third of the oven; preheat to 325°.
• Add flour, sugars, baking powder, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, then add in the butter.
• Beat on the lowest speed for about 2 minutes, until the ingredients are well combined.
• Combine the remaining batter ingredients, except the pecans in a bowl; mix well.
• Increase mixer speed to medium and add 1/3 of the liquid ingredients; mix for 2 minutes, then stop and scrape down the bowl and beater.
• Add another third of the liquid, beat for 2 minutes, then scrape again.
• Finally, add the remaining liquid and beat and scrape as before.
• Use a large rubber spatula to give the batter a final stir; fold in the floured pecans, thend scrape the batter into the prepared pan; smooth the top.
• Bake for 65-75 minutes, or until a pick comes out clean.
• Cool cake in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes, then invert onto the rack to finish cooling.
• Just before serving, dust the cake generously with powdered sugar.
• *Almond Rum Pound Cake-substitute chopped blanched whole almonds for the pecans and white rum for the bourbon; add 1 teaspoon almond extract along with the vanilla extract.
• *Hazelnut Dark Rum Pound Cake-substitute coarsely ground unblanched hazelnuts for the pecans and dark rum for the bourbon.

BOURBON PECAN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Combine butter and sugar in bowl of electric mixer and blend until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating constantly.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg.
• Blend sour cream and bourbon.
• Alternately add flour and sour cream mixture to batter.
• Add pecans.
• Grease bottom and sides of tube or bunt pan.
• Pour in batter and bake at 325 degrees for about one hour and 30 minutes.
• Test cake frequently after first hour and 15 minutes for doneness.
• Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes before turning out on wire rack.
• To prepare glaze, combine sugar and bourbon.
• Stir while gradually adding water.
• Add only enough water to make a pourable glaze without allowing mixture to become too thin.
• Pour glaze over top of warm cake and let dribble down sides.

BOURBON BROWN SUGAR POUND CAKE

Steps:

• preheat oven to 350.
• in a large bowl mix flour, baking powder and sida and salt.
• butter and flour a 12 cup bundt pan.
• in a stand mixer add butter and whip for 2-3 minutes.
• add sugar and mix 3 minutes more.
• add eggs one at a time, scraping down bowl a few times.
• add vanilla and mix until combined.
• mix buttermilk and bourbon.
• alternately add flour mix and buttermilk mix, starting and ending with flour.
• add nuts and stir in well.
• pour mixture into bundt pan and bake for 70 minutes until cooked.
• cool in pan 15 minutes.
• meanwhile make the glaze, heat bourbon and sugar together in micro for 1 minute or on stovetop to simmer, brush over warm cake.