Cornmeal Poundcake With Fresh Berries Food

THE MOST ADAPTABLE ONE-BOWL CORNMEAL POUNDCAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees, and grease and flour a 9-inch loaf pan. (Or grease and line it with parchment.)
• In a big bowl, add the sugar, and grate the zest from the orange, lemon or lime into the bowl. If you need a little aromatherapy, work the zest into the sugar with your fingers. (This technique is supposed to infuse the citrus into the sugar.)
• Add the fat, eggs, and yogurt to the bowl, along with the extract and nutmeg, if you like.
• Whisk in the salt, baking soda, baking powder and cornmeal. Once smooth, whisk in flour.
• Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. Let it (mostly) cool in the pan. Then slice off a thick piece, butter it and let yourself be soothed.

BERRY CORNMEAL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a loaf pan with non-stick cooking spray.
• In a large bowl using a stand mixer beat butter and sugar on medium-high until fluffy (about 7 minutes). Scrape down the bowl and beat for 1 additional minute more. Add the vanilla then gradually add eggs one at a time; beating well and scraping down bowl as needed. Put your mixer on low then add salt, flour and cornmeal. Once again beating well to combine and scraping down the bowl as needed.
• Gently toss berries with remaining 1 tablespoon flour and fold into a batter.
• Transfer the batter to the pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, about 65 minutes.
• Let cool in pan on a wire rack, 1 hour. Remove cake from pan and let cool completely on rack before slicing.