Pound Cake Martini Recipe 435 Food

THE VERY BEST POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream flour and butter together until smooth. I do this part in my stand mixer.
• Beat eggs and sugar together until lemon colored and frothy, I do this part with my hand held mixer.
• Add egg and sugar mixture to flour and butter mixture and mix until smooth and creamy.
• Place batter into a greased and floured 10" tube cake pan. Tap the bottom of the pan on a counter top a couple of times to get rid of any air bubbles.
• Bake @ 300° for 1 ½ hours or until tests done with toothpick.

POUND CAKE MARTINI RECIPE - (4.3/5)

Steps:

• Shake over ice and pour in martini glass. Enjoy!

VANILLA POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Mix sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla in large bowl.
• Beat on low to mix ingredients well.
• Beat on high for 5 minutes.
• On low, add flour and baking powder alternately with buttermilk.
• Beat well after each addition.
• Make sure you end with the dry ingredients.
• Spoon batter into greased and floured 10 inch tube pan.
• Bake for 65-75 minutes, until a pick comes out clean.
• Cool for 15 minutes; invert onto cake plate.

EASY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Pre-heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line a 900g loaf tin with parchment paper (mine was 19cm x 9cm x 6cm). Put all of the ingredients except those for the icing into a large bowl and beat together, either using an electric hand whisk or a wooden spoon until smooth and combined. Pour the mix into the loaf tin and spread evenly with the back of spoon. Bake for 40 - 45 mins.
• Once out of the oven, leave to cool and make the icing. Combine the icing sugar and vanilla paste with three tbsp of water - you may need more but add it gradually to get a thick icing. Spread it over the top of the cake; it's fine if it drips down the edges. Allow to set and then slice.

BIRTHDAY CAKE MARTINI

Steps:

• Sprinkle nonpareils on a plate. Moisten the rim of a martini glass with honey; hold glass upside down and dip rim into nonpareils. , Fill a mixing glass or tumbler three-fourths full with ice. Add vodka, white chocolate liqueur, amaretto and cream; stir until condensation forms on outside of glass. Strain vodka mixture into prepared glass; serve immediately.

LEMON PUDDING POUND CAKE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a Bundt pan.
• Whisk together the flour, pudding mix, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• Beat the butter, oil and granulated sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment at medium-high speed, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed, until pale and fluffy, 4 to 6 minutes. Reduce the speed to low and add the eggs, one at a time, beating until the yellow disappears after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract, lemon zest and lemon juice just until combined.
• Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the milk in 3 additions, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Beat just until the ingredients are combined.
• Scrape the batter evenly into the prepared Bundt pan and bake until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean with only a couple of moist crumbs, 1 hour 5 minutes to 1 hour 10 minutes. Let the cake cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the cake and invert onto a cooling rack to cool completely, about 45 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make the lemon drizzle: Whisk together the confectioners' sugar, lemon juice and vanilla until thick. (If it's too runny, add a little more confectioners' sugar.) After the cake is cooled, pour the lemon drizzle over the top.

FRUIT COCKTAIL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large mixing bowl cream together the softened margarine and the sugar,.
• Mix well till creamy smooth. Add one egg at a time and beat after each addition.
• In a measuring glass combine the milk, the fruit cocktail juice and the vanilla extract (or amaretto liqueur).
• In a separate mixing bowl sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.
• Add 1/4 of the flour mix to the creamy butter mixture alternately with a little of the liquid; mix well after each addition. Keep doing this till there is no more flour or liquid left. Your cake batter should be rich and smooth/ If needed, add a tablespoon or more milk or juice--not too much, you don't want your cake watery.
• Fold in the drained fruit cocktail to your batter and mix well till all fruit is coated and not floating on top of batter.
• Pour the batter into two well greased and lightly floured loaf pans or a bundt cake pan.
• If using non-stick pans then just spray with a little oil spray.
• Bake for 40 to 50 minutes for loaf pans or till lightly golden brown and insert toothpick comes out clean. If baking in bundt pan, it should be about the same time.
• Remove cake from oven and let sit on cake rack. Remove cake from pans and place on serving dish.
• Put icing sugar in sieve and tap side of sieve to get a light dusting all over top of cake.
• Serve cake slices with whipped cream or ice cream, makes a yummy light dessert.
• Note: you can do a summer berry cake by adding fresh fruit like blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, diced peaches, pears, and or nectarines.
• When making the fresh berry cake use either 1/2 cup of fruit cocktail juice + 1/cup milk OR use 1 cup of milk, but if your replacing the juice with the whole cup of milk you will need to add 1/3 cup more sugar.

BUNNY'S CARROT CAKE MARTINI

Steps:

• Dip rim of chilled martini glas in cinnamon and sugar.
• Combine the vanilla vodka, buttershots liqueur and cinnamon schnapps in a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes.
• Shake well, strain into a Martini glass, and serve.
• Top with optional water to lighten.

POUND CAKE FRENCH TOAST

Steps:

• Stir together eggs and milk in a shallow dish.
• Dip pound cake slices in egg mixture, evenly coating both sides. Cook pound cake slices in batches, in a lighlty greased large nonstick skillet over medium heat 2 1/2 minutes on each side or until golden brown.
• Serve with maple mint cream and raspberry sauce.
• Maple Mint Cream:.
• Beat cream at high speed with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Add yogurt, syrup, and mint extract, beat until well blended. 2 cups.
• Raspberry sauce:.
• Process raspberries and sugar in a blender until smooth, stopping to scrape down sides. Pour mixture through a wire mesh strainer into a bowl, discard seeds. 2 cups.

KAREN'S SOUR CREAM POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Line the bottom of a 9 inch tube pan with paper, or grease really well!
• Cream the butter and Sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add Eggs, one at a time beating thoroughly after each egg.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Alternatly add the dry ingredients, and sour cream to the butter mixture blending really well.
• Add vanilla.
• Beat for about 5 minutes until smooth and silky looking.
• Pour into pan and bake 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• I usually check at 1 hour 10 minutes.
• Your cake is done when a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Let cake cool in pan for about 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool.
• You make make a glaze of Confectioners sugar or decorate with red and green cherries. The green ones for leaves the red ones as flowers.