Sugar Crust Poundcake With Sherry Sauce Food

BREAD PUDDING WITH SHERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Bring 1/2 cup Sherry to boil in a heavy small saucepan. Add currants. Remove from heat. Cover and let stand 15 minutes to plump.
• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Butter an 8 inch square glass baking dish. Whisk milk, sugar, eggs, yolks, vanilla and cinnamon in large bowl. Arrange half of bread on bottom of prepared dish. Spoon Sherry and currants over. Arrange remaining bread over. Pour egg mixture over all. Let stand 15 minutes, pressing bread into egg mixture occasionally. Bake pudding until puffed and golden, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Transfer to rack.
• Bring half and half to a simmer in heavy medium saucepan. Whisk yolks, sugar and cornstarch in medium bowl. Gradually whisk in hot half and half. Return mixture to same saucepan. Stir over medium heat until mixture thickens and leaves path on back of spoon, about 3 minutes. Strain into bowl. Stir in Sherry. Serve pudding warm with warm sauce.

SUGAR CRUST POUNDCAKE WITH SHERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• In a medium bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour in small amounts at a time, beating well after each addition. Bake in a well-greased 10- to 12-inch tube or bundt pan for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Do not open oven door until cake has been baking for an hour. Cool and turn out onto the serving plate. Serve sliced with Sherry Sauce spooned over (see recipe below).
• Beat eggs and sugar together in the top of a double boiler. Cook over boiling water until thick; stir in butter, sherry, and salt. Serve warm.
• Makes 3/4 cup

TRADITIONAL POUNDCAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour bottom of pan. Cream butter and sugar in a standing mixer or hand held mixer. Add eggs one at a time. Add vanilla, then flour, salt and lemon juice. Pour into prepared pans and bake 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours (50 minutes for mini pans) or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 5 minutes before taking out. Garnish with whipped cream and berries.for mini pans) or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool in the pan for five minutes before taking out. Garnish with whipped cream and berries.

ALMOND POUND CAKE WITH CHERRY-BERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Grease bottom and side of 12-cup fluted tube cake pan with shortening; lightly flour. Mix flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; set aside.
• In large bowl, beat 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar, the butter, oil and eggs with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high speed 5 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Beat in flour mixture, milk and pastry filling on low speed until blended. Spread in pan.
• Bake 55 to 65 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool 20 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack. Cool completely, about 2 hours.
• Meanwhile, in 2-quart saucepan, cook all Cherry-Berry Sauce ingredients over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until cranberries pop and mixture boils and thickens slightly. Store covered in refrigerator.
• In chilled small bowl, beat all Sweetened Whipped Cream ingredients with electric mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form. Serve cake with whipped cream and warm sauce.

SHERRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Mix at medium speed the cake mix, pudding, oil, sherry and eggs.
• In a small bowl mix the cinnamon and brown sugar.
• Grease a bundt pan.
• Pour a little batter in the bottom of the pan, then sprinkle a little of the sugar on top of that.
• Continue to layer having the batter as the last layer.
• Bake at 350 for 50-60 minutes.
• Once cooled sprinkle a little more cinnamon and sugar on top.