Lavender Buttermilk Pound Cake Recipes

LAVENDER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Shift together flour and baking powder, set aside.
• In a large bowl cream butter, add lavender, sugar and lemon zest. Continue beating until light in colour and texture.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating througly after each one.
• Add half of the flour, mix, add milk.
• Fold in the remaining flour, transfer the mixture into a greased and lined 8x4x2 1/2 pan.
• Bake at 325 F for 1 hour, cool on wire rack.

LAVENDER POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F Grease and flour two 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 5/8 - inch loaf pans.
• Mix flour, baking soda and salt in medium-size bowl. Pulse 1/2 cup sugar with the lavender in a food processor until lavender is ground.
• In large bowl, beat butter, lavender-flavoured sugar, remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar and vanilla until fluffy, 3 minutes. Beat in eggs, one at the time. In a small bowl combine sour cream and milk. On a low speed, alternately, beat in flour mixture with sour cream mixture, beginning and ending with the flour. Divide between pans.
• Bake at 350 F for 55 minutes or until tester comes out clean. Cool on rack 10 minutes. Remouve cakes from pans and let cool completely.
• DRIZZLE:.
• Microwave water and lavender for 30 seconds on HIGH power. Let stip for 5 minutes. Strain out lavender flowers and discard.
• Once cake is cool, whisk lavender water and the confectioner sugar. Drizzle over both loaves. Slice and serve.

LEMON BUTTERMILK POUNDCAKE

Steps:

• This moist, lemony cake is a perfect brunch or picnic cake.
• Set a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat to 325 degrees. Butter a 10-inch bundt pan and flour the buttered surface, shaking out the excess. Combine butter, sugar, flour and baking powder in mixer with paddle. Beat on low speed 2 minutes. Combine remaining ingredients and add to mixer in 3 additions, beating 1 minute between each addition. Scrape batter into prepared pan and bake for about 1 hour, until cake is well risen and well colored and a knife inserted between the edge and tube emerges clean. Place cake on a rack in pan. For glaze, combine water and sugar and bring to a boil in a saucepan. Remove from heat and add lemon juice and vanilla. Unmold cake and brush glaze evenly all over outside of cake. Cool and wrap for storage. The berry compote, combine all ingredients, cover and refrigerate several hours. Serve slices of the cake with the compote.

BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour and baking soda; add alternately with buttermilk and beat well. , Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 325° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. Cool in pan for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.

BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease one 9 or 10 inch tube pan. Mix together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar. Mix in the eggs, one at time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the lemon and the vanilla extracts. Gently mix in flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 90 minutes. Do not open oven door until after one hour. When cake begins to pull away from the side of the pan it is done. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

GRANDMA RUBY'S BUTTERMILK POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Sift flour, salt, and baking soda together into a bowl. Repeat sifting process 2 more times.
• Beat sugar and shortening together until smooth and creamy. Add flour mixture, buttermilk, eggs, lemon extract, vanilla extract, and butter extract; beat until batter is just combined. Pour batter into prepared tube pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 75 minutes. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.