Best 5 Flavor Pound Cake With 5 Flavor Butter Glaze Recipes

FIVE FLAVOR POUND CAKE I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease a 10 inch tube pan. In a small bowl, combine flour and baking powder. Set aside. In a measuring cup, combine the milk and 1 teaspoon each coconut, lemon, rum, butter and vanilla extracts; set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, shortening and 3 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, and beat until smooth. Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Spoon mixture into prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours, or until cake tests done. Cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes.
• Turn cake out of pan onto wire rack. Place waxed paper under rack to catch glaze drippings. Slowly spoon Five Flavor Glaze onto top of hot cake. Cool completely.
• To make the Five Flavor Glaze: In a saucepan, combine 1/2 cup sugar, water and 1/2 teaspoon each coconut, lemon, rum, butter and vanilla extracts. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved.

BEST 5 FLAVOR POUND CAKE WITH 5 FLAVOR BUTTER GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325° F. (If you haven't calibrated your oven recently, I recommend you calibrate your oven once a year. For info read: How to Calibrate your Oven.)
• Coat a 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan with solid vegetable shortening and sugar or Wilton cake release spray.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream butter, shortening, and sugar until fluffy. Stop mixer and scrape sides. Mix again.
• Add eggs one at a time beating each one in before adding the next. Stop mixer and scrape sides. Mix again.
• Next, stir the extracts into the milk. Then combine the salt and baking powder with the flour. Alternately add the flour mixture and the milk mixture to the creamed sugar mixture beginning and ending with the flour. Stop the mixer and scrape the sides. Mix until well combined.
• Pour batter into your prepared pan. Smooth the top.
• Bake at 325°F for 75 to 85 minutes or until done.
• Carefully insert a cake tester into the center of the cake. The cake is done when dry crumbs or no crumbs stick to the pick. As well, the internal temperature of the cake will be 200°F when fully cooked.

FIVE FLAVOR POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Grease a 10-inch tube or Bundt cake pan.
• In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt; set aside.
• In a measuring cup, combine the milk and 1 teaspoon of each of the 5 extracts; set aside.
• In mixing bowl, cream butter, shortening and 3 cups of sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time and beat until smooth.
• Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Spoon mixture into prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 1/2 hours, or until cake tests done.
• Let cake cool for 5 minutes and then pour 1/2 of glaze over cake (while still in pan).
• Let sit for another 5 minutes and then turn cake out of pan onto wire rack (with waxed paper under rack to catch drippings).
• Slowly spoon remaining glaze onto top of hot cake.
• Cool completely before serving.
• To make the Five Flavor Glaze: In saucepan, combine 1/2 cup sugar, water and 1/2 teaspoon of each of the 5 extracts.
• Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
• Variations: Six Flavor Cake/Glaze: Add 1 teaspoon of almond extract to Five Flavor Cake ingredients and 1/2 teaspoon almond extract to Five Flavor Glaze ingredients.
• Seven Flavor Cake/Glaze: Add 1 teaspoon pineapple flavored extract to Six Flavor Cake and 1/2 teaspoon pineapple flavored extract to Six Flavor Glaze.