Lemon Vanilla Pound Cake With Lavender Glaze Food

LEMON-VANILLA POUND CAKE WITH LAVENDER GLAZE RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Beat butter with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer at medium speed until creamy, about 1 minute. Gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition. Stir in lemon zest, fresh lemon juice, and vanilla bean paste.
• Stir together flour, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl. Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Pour batter into a greased (with shortening) and floured 10-inch tube pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 1 hour, 15 minutes to 1 hour, 30 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove cake from pan to wire rack, and cool completely, about 2 hours.
• Spoon Lavender Glaze over cake. Sprinkle with lemon zest.

LEMON LAVENDER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt cake pan .
• Cream butter with granulated sugar until light. Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add about 1/3 of the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, along with half of the sour cream. Beat until well blended.
• Repeat with another 1/3 of the flour mixture and the remaining sour cream, scraping the sides of the bowl a few times. Beat in the remaining flour mixture until smooth and well blended.
• Fold in the 1 1/2 tablespoons of dried lavender flowers and the juice and zest of 2 lemons. Spoon into the prepared baking pan.
• Bake for 50 to 60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Gather the ingredients.
• Heat lemon juice (juice of 1 lemon) and 2 teaspoons lavender flowers in the microwave or on the stovetop. (Note: Heat just until hot to bring out the lavender flavor a bit.)
• Strain out flowers; set juice aside and discard the flowers.
• In a bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, hot lemon juice, and enough hot water to make a good drizzling consistency.
• Drizzle over the cooled (can be slightly warm) cake.
• Serve and enjoy!

LAVENDER-LEMON POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 9 to 10-inch bundt pan.
• Melt the butter with 2 tablespoons of dried lavender in a small saucepan. Off the heat and let mixture steep for 10 minutes; strain and set aside to cool.
• In a large mixing bowl (use a stand mixer or a hand held one) beat together the eggs and 2 cups of sugar until thick and pale, about 5 minutes.
• Sift together the flour and salt in a bowl.
• Fold the lemon zest and one-third of the flour mixture into the eggs until thoroughly combined. Gradually fold in the remaining flour, in two batches, scraping the bowl as needed.
• In a separate bowl, whisk 1 cup of the batter with the melted butter and vanilla. Add this to the remaining batter and fold to combine.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and fill to about 2/3rds full. (Use any remaining batter to make about 4 cupcakes). Bake cake until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean, about 50 minutes.
• Transfer the cake to a wire rack and let cool completely.
• Meanwhile, make the lavender-lemon syrup.:.
• Combine sugar, water, lemon juice and 3 tablespoons of dried lavender in a saucepan.
• Bring the mixture to a simmer and cook until the sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and let steep for 3-4 minutes. The syrup will take on the slightest blush color of pale lavender.
• Position the cake on a wire rack over a rimmed sheet pan. With a fork or skewer, poke the cake all over. Brush the top and sides of the cake with almost half the syrup and let cool completely.
• For the glaze:.
• In a measuring cup with a pour spout add 2 strained tablespoons of the remaining syrup. Gradually whisk in the powdered sugar to the desired consistency, and continue to whisk until blended and smooth. Add a few drops of syrup at a time to adjust consistency, as needed.
• Drizzle the glaze onto the cake, and garnish with a sprinkle of dried lavender flowers or crystallized sugar for extra pizazz! If you like, serve cake slices with a scoop of Lemon Verbena Sorbet on the side, studded with a sliver of candied ginger.

LAVENDER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F Grease and flour two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 5/8 - inch loaf pans.
• Mix flour, baking soda and salt in medium-size bowl. Pulse 1/2 cup sugar with the lavender in a food processor until lavender is ground.
• In large bowl, beat butter, lavender-flavoured sugar, remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar and vanilla until fluffy, 3 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at the time. In a small bowl combine sour cream and milk. On a low speed, alternately, beat in flour mixture with sour cream mixture, beginning and ending with the flour. Divide between pans.
• Bake at 350 F for 55 minutes or until tester comes out clean. Cool on rack 10 minutes. Remouve cakes from pans and let cool completely.
• DRIZZLE:.
• Microwave water and lavender for 30 seconds on HIGH power. Let stip for 5 minutes. Strain out lavender flowers and discard.
• Once cake is cool, whisk lavender water and the confectioner sugar. Drizzle over both loaves. Slice and serve.

LEMON-VANILLA POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Generously brush a 10-inch Bundt pan with melted butter.
• Refrigerate pan until butter hardens, about 15 minutes.
• Brush pan with remaining melted butter to cover any uncoated spots; set pan aside.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In small saucepan, bring milk and cut-up butter to a boil; remove pan from heat and set aside.
• In a medium bowl, whisk flour and salt; set aside.
• In large bowl, with an electric mixer fitted with whisk attachment on medium-high speed, beat eggs until very light and fluffy, about 5 minutes.
• On medium speed, gradually beat in 2 cups sugar until blended; beat in vanilla and lemon extracts.
• On low speed, gradually beat in flour mixture just until blended.
• Pour in hot milk mixture, then add baking powder; beat until blended.
• With a rubber spatula, fold in lemon zest.
• Scrape batter evenly into prepared pan.
• Bake 50-55 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine lemon juice and remaining 1/4 cup sugar.
• Line a rimmed baking pan with foil.
• Invert cake over prepared pan.
• Brush top and sides of cake with lemon syrup.
• Cool completely.