Pound Cake With Fresh Strawberries And Balsamic Sabayon Food

STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Get all your ingredients ready, i.e mash the strawberries, sieve the flour, and add the salt and baking powder to the flour etc.
• Start with making the cake batter by creaming the butter and sugar until a pale light color.
• Slowly add the beaten eggs to the mixer, on a low-speed setting, a bit at a time. If the mixture starts to curdle or split, add a spoonful of your sieved flour, keep on adding the eggs, and a bit of flour if necessary until all the eggs are added.
• Add half the milk with half of the flour, keeping the mixer at a slow speed. Once combined, add the vanilla extract, the rest of the milk, and flour. Right at the end, fold in the mashed strawberries.
• Transfer the cake mixture to the greased and lined loaf tin. Place in the oven for 1 hour 10 minutes, check after 1 hour. Test if done by placing a skewer in the center of the cake and make sure it comes out clean. Every oven is different so cook times will vary a little.

POUND CAKE WITH STRAWBERRIES

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine sour cream and sugar. Place cake cubes in dessert dishes; top with strawberries and sweetened sour cream.

FRESH STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE RECIPE

Steps:

• Remove the stems and wash strawberries thoroughly. Next add strawberries to food processor or heavy duty blender and puree until smooth. Remove 2 tablespoons of puree and set aside for glaze later on.
• Then add strawberry puree to a small pot over medium heat and reduce the puree for 15-20 minutes or until you have ½ cup left. It should be pretty thick. Cool puree down to room temperature and set aside.
• Next preheat oven to 325 degrees and prepare a 12 cup Bundt pan with nonstick method of your choosing.
• In your mixer bowl, add butter and beat for 2 minutes on high speed. Slowly add in sugar and beat on high speed for an additional 4 minutes until very pale yellow and fluffy, might be a bit crumbly.
• Next, add eggs, one at a time, combining well after each addition and scraping down the sides of your bowl as needed.
• Turn your mixer down to its lowest speed, and slowly add flour in two increments, then add salt and baking soda. Be careful not to overbeat.
• Lastly, add buttermilk, the cooled strawberry puree, vanilla and strawberry extracts (and red food coloring if desired) and mix until just combined then stop.
• Pour cake batter into the Bundt pan and bake for 70 to 80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes then invert cake on serving plate.
• Once cake has cooled to room temperature, whisk together 2 tablespoons of the strawberry puree, powdered sugar, vanilla and lemon or lime juice until smooth and thick, but pourable.
• Use your spoon to test this by seeing how it runs down the side of the spoon. If too thin, adjust with powdered sugar and if too thick, add a bit more juice until consistency is perfect. Glaze top of cooled cake and let set for 10 minutes then serve.

FRESH STRAWBERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine strawberries, sugar, 2 tablespoons water, and balsamic vinegar in a saucepan and bring to simmer over medium heat.
• Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Whisk 2 tablespoons water and cornstarch in a small bowl.
• Whisk cornstarch mixture into strawberry mixture. Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Transfer mixture to a blender and puree until smooth.

STRAWBERRY BALSAMIC FILLED CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Prepare and bake cake mix according to package directions for cupcakes. Cool completely., Place strawberries, sugar, vinegar and thyme in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium; cook, uncovered, until thickened, 12-15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool completely., Beat topping ingredients on medium speed until stiff peaks form, about 2 minutes (do not overmix). Refrigerate, covered, while filling cupcakes., To fill cupcakes, cut a 1-in. circle (1-in. deep) in the top of each cupcake; remove cut portion and set aside. Spoon 1 teaspoon strawberry mixture into each opening; replace cutout portions. Refrigerate the filled cupcakes for 10 minutes., Pipe or dollop topping over cupcakes. Refrigerate until serving.

BALSAMIC STRAWBERRIES AND ICE CREAM ON POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Place the strawberries into a frying pan, on a medium high heat, with the caster sugar. Heat for 1-2 minutes.
• Add the balsamic vinegar and cook for a further two minutes.
• Serve the balsamic strawberries piled on top of the toaste pound cake, and serve with ice cream, to your taste.

STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Beat butter and cream cheese together in a large mixing bowl until smooth. Add sugar and beat until smooth and fluffy. Add vanilla extract and beat in eggs one at a time. Add 1 cup of flour and baking powder and mix until smooth. Beat in another 1 cup of flour until smooth; mix in remaining flour. Fold in strawberries gently. Spoon batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Run a table knife around the edges to loosen. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool completely and serve.

WHITE VANILLA BEAN CAKE WITH BALSAMIC STRAWBERRY AND MASCARPONE FILLING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray three 8-inch round pans with nonstick spray and line them with parchment paper. Spray the paper.
• Sift together the all-purpose flour, cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large bowl. Whisk together the egg whites, sour cream, milk, vanilla and vanilla bean seeds in another large bowl.
• Beat the butter and sugar with a paddle attachment until light and fluffy. Alternate beating in the flour mixture and the egg mixture, adding the flour mixture in 3 additions and the egg mixture in 2, starting and ending with the flour.
• Fill each cake pan with 2 1/2 cups of batter and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans for 15 minutes, then flip them onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
• For the filling: Put the strawberries, granulated sugar, balsamic vinegar and lemon juice in a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring the mixture to a simmer, and cook until it gets to a syrupy reduction, about 30 minutes.
• Cool completely.
• Beat the mascarpone in a medium bowl until smooth. Whip the heavy cream until light and fluffy in another bowl; just before it is finished, whip in the confectioners¿ sugar and vanillia extract. Fold in the strawberry mixture.
• For the frosting: Cream the butter and shortening until light and fluffy, then beat in the confectioners' sugar and vanilla extract.
• To assemble the cake: Put 1 cake layer on a cake board or platter. Spread half of the filling mixture on top. Repeat with another cake layer. Frost the cake with the buttercream frosting and serve.

POUND CAKE WITH FRESH STRAWBERRIES AND BALSAMIC SABAYON

Steps:

• Combine first 3 ingredients and 2 tablespoons vinegar in medium stainless steel bowl. Set bowl over pan of simmering water (do not allow bowl to touch water). Whisk until sabayon triples in volume and thermometer registers 160°F, 4 minutes. Place bowl over larger bowl filled with ice and water; whisk sabayon until cool.
• Beat cream in another medium bowl to soft peaks. Add sabayon and fold together. Cover and refrigerate sabayon.
• Puree 3/4 cup quartered berries with 2 tablespoons sugar and remaining 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar in processor. Pour puree into large bowl. Add remaining berries and toss to coat.
• Arrange 3 thin cake slices on each of 6 plates. Spoon berry mixture alongside. Top with sabayon and serve.

SABAYON WITH STRAWBERRIES

Steps:

• Preparing the strawberries:
• About an hour before serving the dessert, rinse the strawberries (stems on) and drain them on paper towels. Slice off the stems and halve or quarter the strawberries lengthwise, depending on size, into a bowl. Sprinkle over the sugar and the lemon juice; fold gently together to blend well. Taste a strawberry, add more sugar or lemon juice if needed, and set aside to macerate.
• Whipping the sabayon:
• If you want to serve the sabayon warm, make it at the last minute. If you want to glaze the sabayon under the broiler, or make it ahead of time to serve chilled, have ready a large bowl (larger than the one in which you whip the sauce) partly filled with ice cubes.
• Whisk to blend the yolks, Marsala, and sugar in the stainless-steel bowl. Rest the bowl in the saucepan over hot water. Whisk constantly for 4 to 5 minutes or more to cook the sauce, until it has the consistency of lightly whipped cream. Clear the bottom of the bowl constantly with the whisk so that the eggs do not scramble, and adjust the heat as needed. Taste the sauce - the sabayon should never get so hot that you can't stick your very clean finger in it - and whisk drops of lemon juice or more sugar if you want. When thick, foamy, and tripled in volume, remove from heat. It can be served hot as is, tepid, or cool.
• Serving:
• Spoon a portion of strawberries - 1/2 cup or more - into each goblet or glass, and top with 1/3 to 1/2 cup of warm or cool sabayon. Or put the sauce in the glass first, then the strawberries.
• Variation: Strawberries Glazed with Sabayon
• Cool the sabayon to room temperature. Whip the cream and sugar until soft peaks form, and fold the cream into the sabayon with a rubber spatula.
• Turn on the broiler. Spread the strawberries in the baking dish in one layer (or in individual dishes). Spoon the sauce over the berries so they are completely covered and set the dish under the broiler, 5 to 6 inches from the heat. With the door open - so you can watch carefully - broil for a minute or two, turning the dish as needed to glaze evenly, until the top of the sabayon is nicely browned and slightly crusted. Serve right away.

BUTTER-TOASTED VANILLA POUND CAKE WITH MACERATED STRAWBERRIES

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine the strawberries, balsamic vinegar, sugar, almond extract, salt and pepper and toss to coat. Leave to macerate for 15 to 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
• Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet or griddle over medium-low heat, swirling to coat the entire pan. Add the pound cake slices and toast until lightly browned on the bottom, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove the pound cake from the pan, swirl in the remaining 2 tablespoons butter; and toast the pound cake on the reverse side until lightly browned, another 2 to 3 minutes.
• Place the toasted pound cake on plates and add a scoop of vanilla ice cream to the side of each slice. Top the slices with some of the macerated strawberries and garnish with toasted almonds. Serve immediately.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan
• In a large bowl, sift together the all-purpose flour, cake flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
• In a stand mixer or using a hand mixer, cream together the butter and cream cheese on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add the sugar and mix for 1 minute. Add the eggs, one at a time, and then the vanilla; mix for 1 minute, until well blended. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add in the dry ingredients and mix until completely blended.
• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes before turning the cake out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Yield: 8 servings