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Pineapple Upside Down Pound Cake

March 19, 2012 No Comments

I wanted to make something extra special for my father-in-laws birthday because he definitely deserved it. He is one of the most selfless, giving people I know and his birthday lunch needed a fabulous cake! Jeremy told me he had mentioned pineapple and yellow cake so I thought hmmm, Pineapple Upside Down Cake?? Sounded good to me! Now I had never made one before but I had had plenty in younger days…Pineapple Upside Down Cake seemed to show up at every church potluck and family gathering we had. You know the kind, made with boxed yellow cake mix and canned pineapple slices..and there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that version but I wanted to try my hand at a totally from scratch Pineapple Upside Down Cake.

I found this recipe on simplyrecipes.com and only made a couple of changes, nothing major at all. As for the cake, I really liked the way it turned out, more like a pound cake. I thought the addition of almond flour was somewhat odd but it added a nice texture to the cake. It was definitely better the second day after the pineapple juices and butter/brown sugar mixture had time to seep into the cake a bit more. I served it at room temperature with vanilla ice cream and everyone loved it. I’d say it was a successful birthday!

Pineapple Upside Down Pound Cake

Ingredients

Topping

1 c. Firmly Packed Regular or Dark Brown Sugar
½ c. (1 stick) Unsalted Butter, melted
5 Slices Fresh, Cored Pineapple (or 1, 20 oz. Can Pineapple Slices)
Maraschino Cherries

Cake

1½ c. All-Purpose Flour
6 T. Cake Flour
6 T. Almond Flour/Meal
¾ t. Baking Powder
½ t. Salt
1¾ c. Granulated Sugar
1 c. (2 sticks) Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
4 Large Eggs
1 T. Pure Vanilla Extract
¾ c. Sour Cream

Instructions

For the Topping

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 10-inch, round cake pan. Sprinkle brown sugar evenly into pan. Pour butter evenly over brown sugar. Arrange pineapple slices in a single layer on top of the butter/sugar mixture and fill the center of each pineapple with maraschino cherries (I used 5 cherries in each center).
Whisk together the all-purpose flour, cake flour, almond flour/meal, baking powder and salt. In the bowl of an electric mixer beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Beat in the vanilla. Add dry ingredients alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with dry ingredients, beating well after each addition. Pour cake batter into pan.
Bake in oven for 1 hour and 25 minutes or until a tested inserted in the middle comes out clean. Cool cake completely or turn out onto a platter after 10 minutes and serve warm.

Notes

Serves 16.

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Berry Butter Cake

May 30, 2011 2 Comments

This post is a little late for Memorial Day, but this is one recipe you’ll be able to break out for any family or friend type gathering you may have in the coming summer months. It’s basically a pound cake but it is a darn good one…I mean, it’s from Paula Deen after all! That woman knows her stuff, especially when it comes to absurd amounts of butter and sugar. I added in two types of berries for a more summery cake and threw in a bit more vanilla. Also, if you have quite a few eggs you need to use up (like me) this cake is perfect–it uses six! Many of the reviews I read added lemon flavor or zest to give it a little more zing, which would also be a wonderful addition along with the berries.

I really wanted something quick too, as I didn’t have a lot of time last night to make something. However, the time stated on the recipe was a little off. Instead of the hour and fifteen minutes it said to bake it, it actually took me one hour and 50 minutes to get it perfectly done. That will definitely teach me to not start a cake around 9 in the evening! Besides that little snaffu, the cake was awesome! It forms a sugary crust on the bottom (my favorite part) and stays absolutely moist and dense on the inside. I HIGHLY recommend serving with vanilla ice cream. Absolutely delish!

Enjoy!

Berry Butter Cake

Adapted from Southwest Georgia Pound Cake

1 c. (2 sticks) Unsalted Butter, softened

3 c. Granulated Sugar

6 Large Eggs

3 c. AP Flour

1/2 t. Baking Powder

1/2 t. Salt

1 c. Heavy Whipping Cream

2 T. Pure Vanilla Extract

1 1/2 c. Each Frozen Blueberries and Raspberries, tossed in flour (Do this once you have mixed everything together. You want the berries to be frozen when you mix them into the batter so that they don’t bleed into it.)

Directions

Generously grease and flour a 10-inch bundt pan. Do NOT preheat the oven. Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar together on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3-4 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Alternately add flour mixture and heavy whipping cream to the butter-sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Stir in the vanilla and gently, but quickly, fold the berries into the batter.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Put into a cold oven and set the temperature to 325 degrees. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes without opening the oven door and then bake for an additional 30–35 minutes, checking with a butter knife toward the end of the time to test for doneness.

Cool the cake on a baking rack for 15 minutes and then invert the cake onto a cake plate or cake stand. Slice warm or at room temperature and serve with vanilla ice cream or homemade whipped cream.

Makes 16-20 servings.

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White Chocolate Cherry Pound Cake

January 13, 2010 3 Comments

Pound cake isn’t something I crave regularly if ever, but I had a recipe a co-worker gave me that I knew was absolutely fabulous and I had a LOT of sour cream that needed to be used ASAP so I decided to give it a try. The original recipe my co-worker had made was chock full of lemon juice, lemon peel, lemon extract…basically, it had a TON of lemon flavor. Even a lemon glaze! And while I adore lemon, I wasn’t too sure the crowd I’d be baking for would share my sentiments for citrus so I decided to alter the recipe just a tad. Plus, I had a ton of maraschino cherries I needed to put to good use!

I won’t lie, I licked the batter off the spoon. And the mixing bowl. And the beater. It was good…very good. At this point, I became EXTREMELY excited for the finished product.

My excitement died down a bit however when the cake still wasn’t done after the alloted time called for in the recipe, 45 minutes. In fact it took a whole hour and 10 minutes and my toothpick never came out completely clean! But I couldn’t wait any longer so I decided it was time to cool.

Despite the edges being dry and just slightly overdone, the cake turned out great. I didn’t have time to do the glaze but the top of the cake formed a nice, sugary crust that I loved. I think I could have just eaten the tops off both cakes! The cake itself was very moist and had great almond and cherry flavor, although it wasn’t as dense and thick as I thought it would be. But that didn’t seem to be a problem for anyone–it got gobbled up!

Mmmmmmm, wish I had a nice, thick hunk right now to dunk into some ice cold milk. If you try it, definitely have milk or ice cream on hand to go with. It just makes it that much yummier.

This is the original recipe with my changes noted at the end.

Lemon Lover’s Pound Cake

Cake Ingredients

1 c. unsalted butter, softened
3 c. sugar
6 eggs
5 T. lemon juice
1 T. grated lemon peel
1 t. lemon extract
3 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
1 1/4 c. sour cream

Glaze Ingredients

1/4 c. sour cream
2 T. unsalted butter, softened
2 1/2 c. confectioner’s sugar, sifted
3 T. lemon juice
2 t. grated lemon peel

Directions

1. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about five minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until incorporated. Stir in lemon juice, peel and extract. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour. Beat just until combined (very important to NOT overbeat otherwise you will incorporate too much air into the batter and cake will have a lighter, airier texture).

2. Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack to cool completely.

3. For glaze, in a small mixing bowl, beat the sour cream and butter until blended. Gradually add confectioners’ sugar. Beat in lemon juice and peel. Drizzle over the cake. Store in the refrigerator.

Notes

-I added 1 t. vanilla, 3-4 t. almond extract and one cup of melted white chocolate to the batter immediately after the eggs. I folded in 2 cups of halved maraschino cherries (drained and patted dry) and 1 cup of white chocolate chips right before pouring the batter into the pans.

-I baked the cake in 2, 8×4 in. loaf pans for 1 hour, 10 minutes and cooled completely on a wire rack.

-For the glaze, substitute maraschino cherry juice for the lemon juice and add vanilla and/or almond extract.

DP Bite-Pound cake was a British creation in the early 1700’s. The aptly named cake contained one pound each of eggs, butter, sugar and flour. No leaveners were used other than the air whipped into the batter. Fascinating, right?!? Well, I think so. 🙂