Homemade Strawberry Pound Cake Recipe 445

STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Drain strawberries, reserving 1/2 cup juice. Chop the strawberries; set juice and berries aside. , In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the dry ingredients; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk and mix well. Stir in the pecans, chopped strawberries and extracts., Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 325° for 1-1/4 hours or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from the pan to a wire rack., In a small saucepan, combine the sugar and reserved strawberry juice. Add the sliced strawberries. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1 minute. Remove from the heat; stir in extracts. Brush some of the sauce over the warm cake. Serve cake with remaining sauce.

STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Prep oven and pan. Position a rack in the middle of your oven. Pre-heat your oven to 350°F/177°C).
• Sift dry ingredients. In a large mixing bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Remove a tablespoon of the flour mixture and toss with the diced strawberries (this helps the strawberries from not sinking to the bottom of your cake). Set both aside.
• Combine sour cream and vanilla. In a small bowl or measuring cup, stir together the vanilla extract and sour cream.
• Cream butter and sugar. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or a in a large mixing bowl with a hand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar on medium high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add eggs. Add the eggs one at a time, scraping down the mixing bowl well after each addition and mix until blended.
• Alternate flour and sour cream. Add the flour mixture and sour cream mixture alternately to butter-sugar-egg mixture, in 3 batches, beginning and ending with the flour. Do not overmix at this point. Stop stirring once you see the last of the flour has been stirred in. With a wooden spoon or spatula fold in the diced strawberries.
• Add strawberries. With a wooden spoon or spatula fold in the diced strawberries.
• Prepare bundt pan. Grease and flour one bundt cake pan. I like to grease with either shortening and a dusting of flour, or cooking spray (I like using a cooking spray with flour) and then dust with flour. You can also use two 9x5" loaf pans and grease/flour those instead.
• Bake the cake. Pour batter into pan. Bake in a preheated 350°F oven for approximately 50-60 minutes. (If baking in a loaf pan, divide the batter between the two pans and bake for 40-45 minutes). The cake is done when a toothpick or skewer inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. Allow cake to sit in the pan for 10 minutes before turning the cake out onto a wire rack to further cool. Allow to cool before glazing.
• Make the glaze. Mix all ingredients until smooth. Pour over top of cake and serve. For a thicker glaze use less heavy cream.

STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Lower the oven rack to the next to lowest position.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and grease and flour a tube pan. If you are baking in a dark colored pan, reduce the temperature to 325 degrees and you may need to bake a bit longer.
• Strawberry Puree and Reduction- Wash and slice 1 pound of strawberries. Puree using a food processor or blender ( I used a Bullet smoothie blender) until you have 1 cup puree. Put the puree in a saucepan over medium heat and cook until it reduces to 1/2 cup, stir frequently. Set aside to cool. Reducing the puree gives you the flavor of 1 cup puree without adding too much liquid to the recipe.
• In a separate bowl whisk the flour and baking powder to combine, set aside for later
• In the bowl of your mixer, cream the butter until sooth. Gradually add the sugar and beat at medium speed until lightened in color and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes, a bit longer if using a hand mixer.
• Add the eggs one at a time, mixing after each until the yolk disappears.
• In a 1 cup measuring cup, add 1/2 cup milk plus 1/2 cup of the reduced strawberry puree. If you end up having a bit less than 1/2 cup, when you add it to the 1/2 cup milk, add more milk to bring the total liquid to 1 cup. Add the 2 teaspoons strawberry extract to the cup. Set Aside
• With the mixer on low speed, add the flour/baking powder mixture alternately with the milk/puree mixture. Begin and end with the dry ingredients (3 additions of dry ingredients and 2 of wet ingredients. Mix just until combined. If adding a little pink coloring gel, you can do so at this time.
• Pour the cake batter into prepared tube pan/bundt pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a long wooden skewer comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached. Keep an eye on the cake, if the top of the cake begins to get to dark, loosely place a piece of aluminum foil over it. Check at 1 hour for doneness.
• Remove the baked cake from the oven and allow to cool on a wire rack for about 10-15 minutes before carefully inverting the pan onto a cake board or cake plate.
• 2 1/2 cups (230g) powdered sugar (sift then measure)
• 2 to 3 Tablespoons milk depending on how thick you want the glaze
• 1 teaspoon (4g) vanilla extract (use clear extract for a whiter glaze)
• Mix all ingredients until smooth. If it is too thick add a little more milk, 1 teaspoon at a time. Add more powdered sugar if it is too thin.

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.

STRAWBERRY CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Cream nonfat cream cheese, 1 cup plus 2 teaspoons butter, and sugar together in a bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add salt and vanilla extract and beat the mixture well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating thoroughly after each addition. Gradually add flour, one cup at a time, beating until just incorporated into the batter. Add strawberries after the last cup of flour and beat for a few seconds. Finish mixing with spatula if you need to.
• Pour batter into the prepared Bundt® pan. Lightly sprinkle the top of the batter with the vanilla sugar.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool in the pan. Invert carefully onto a serving plate or cooling rack. Let cool completely.

PAULA DEEN'S STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 (8 1/2x4 1/2x2 1/2") loaf pans.
• Using an electric mixer, beat butter at medium speed until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extracts.
• In a small bowl, combine flour and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating just until combined. Stir in sour cream and strawberries. Divide mixture evenly between prepared pans. Bake 55 to 60 minutes, or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean. Cool cakes in pans on a wire rack 10 minutes. Spoon Sweet Pink Glaze over warm cake, let stand 1 hour; remove from pans and cool completely on a wire rack.
• Sweet Pink Glaze:.
• 1 c powdered sugar.
• 2 tbsps milk.
• 1 drop red food coloring.
• In a small bowl, combine all ingredients, stirring until smooth.

HOMEMADE STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE RECIPE - (4.4/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease and flour a tube pan. Place strawberries in a bowl and cover with 1/2 cup of the sugar. Let sit for two hours or until you have 1/2 cup strawberry juice; set aside. Place the strawberries for the glaze in a bowl and cover with 1/2 of the sugar also to make strawberry juice. In a mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy; approximately 3 to 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine the dry ingredients and add to the creamed mixture alternately with the sour cream; mix well. Fold in the strawberries and juice. Pour into the prepared cake pan and bake for 55 minutes, or when a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, remove and invert onto a wire rack. Poke holes on the top of the cake with a fork. In a small saucepan, combine the sugar and reserved strawberry juice. Add the sliced strawberries. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1 minute. Remove from the heat; stir in extracts. Drizzle some of the sauce over the warm cake. Serve cake with remaining sauce and homemade whipped cream.

EASY STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together. Bake at 325* for 1 hour in a tube pan.
• FOR ICING:.
• Mix one box of powdered sugar, 1 tsp.vanilla, 1 stick of butter and juice from strawberries. Frost when cake is cool.