Hard Apple Cider Cake Food

APPLE CIDER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir together all dry ingredients; set aside. Combine cider and vanilla. Add dry ingredients alternately with cider mixture to batter. Mix until well blended. Spoon into a greased 10-in. angel food cake pan or fluted tube pan. , Bake at 325° for 1 hour 10 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. , Meanwhile, combine icing ingredients in a saucepan. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. While cake is warm, drizzle half of icing over cake. Serve remaining icing over individual cake servings if desired.

HARD CIDER SPICE CAKE WITH APPLES AND CIDER GLAZE

Steps:

• Combine raisins and hard cider in a small heavy saucepan and bring just to a simmer over medium-high heat, and then remove from heat. Let raisins soak for about 20 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 9-inch Bundt pan.
• Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat together butter and sugars until mixture is light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition, and then beat in vanilla.
• In another bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, ras el hanout, lemon zest and salt. Add flour mixture to butter mixture and beat on low speed just until ingredients are incorporated.
• Fold apples into batter. Drain raisins, reserving soaking liquid.
• Fold raisins and 2 tablespoons of the soaking liquid into batter (reserve remaining liquid for glaze). Spoon batter to the prepared pan, smoothing the top.
• Bake until cake is golden brown and the center springs back when touched, about 45 minutes.
• Cool cake in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert cake onto the rack and cool for at least 1 hour.
• Meanwhile, make the glaze: In a medium bowl, whisk together 1 cup of the powdered sugar, lemon juice, salt and remaining soaking liquid until a thick, pourable glaze forms (add remaining 1/4 cup powdered sugar if needed for a thicker glaze).
• Immediately pour glaze over cake, moving slowly and evenly to cover as much of the cake as possible. Let glaze set before serving.

HARD APPLE CIDER CAKE

Steps:

• Mix the wet and dry ingredients seperately, then combine.
• Bake at 350 for 40 - 50 minutes in a greased cake pan or loaf pan.

GLAZED APPLE CIDER CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®) with cooking spray.
• Combine cake mix, 1 cup apple cider, eggs, butter, and vanilla pudding mix in a large bowl; mix until smooth. Pour batter into the tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes.
• Stir confectioners' sugar and 3/4 cup apple cider together in a small bowl to make the glaze.
• Pour glaze over the cake and let soak into the cake and down the sides of the pan, about 30 minutes. Invert onto a plate and cool completely, about 30 minutes.