Pound Cake With Caramel Icing Apricot Ginger Sprinkles Recipes

CARAMEL POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan.
• Cream together 1cup butter or margarine, shortening, brown sugar, and 1 cup white sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in 1 teaspoon vanilla.
• Sift 2 1/2 cups of the flour and baking powder. Add alternately with milk to the creamed mixture. Stir 1/2 cup flour with the chopped pecans, then fold into the batter. Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 90 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let stand in pan 10 minutes, and then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.
• To Make Frosting: In a small saucepan, beat 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar, butter or margarine, and milk together. Bring to a rolling boil, and cook for one minute. Remove from heat, and stir in vanilla. Cool, then beat until thickened. Add a little milk if it too thick. Spread on cake.

BUTTERSCOTCH CAKE WITH CARAMEL ICING

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 9-inch round cake pans, or line with parchment paper.
• Combine brown sugar and butter for cake in a bowl; cream with an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Add vanilla extract, then add eggs, one at a time, beating on low speed just until they are mixed in.
• Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a separate bowl. Add flour mixture in 2 batches, alternating with buttermilk, beating batter on low speed until well mixed, scraping down the bowl by hand as needed. Pour batter evenly into the prepared pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of each layer comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. 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, about 30 minutes.
• While cake cools, combine brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter, milk, and flour for icing in a small saucepan over medium heat; bring to a boil. Continue to boil, stirring frequently to prevent burning, for 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in 2 tablespoons butter and vanilla extract. Cool the mixture, stirring occasionally, until it is still warm (but not hot) and has thickened enough to spread.
• Spread icing over the cake, moving fairly quickly because it will set as it cools. It will be a thin coating, not a thick layer. Let set completely before cutting into the cake.

CARAMEL-FROSTED POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F. Grease 10-inch angel food (tube) cake pan with shortening; lightly flour.
• In large bowl, beat 3 cups sugar and 1 cup butter with electric mixer on medium speed 5 minutes or until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla and almond extract. Alternately add flour, about 1 cup at a time, and whipping cream, about 1/3 cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat on medium speed 2 minutes. Pour batter into pan.
• Bake 1 hour 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted halfway between side and center of pan comes out clean. Cool 30 minutes. Run knife around side of pan to loosen cake; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.
• In 8- or 10-inch skillet, heat 1/4 cup of the sugar over medium heat until amber colored, about 6 minutes, shaking pan occasionally (do not stir). Meanwhile, in 3-quart saucepan, heat remaining 1 1/4 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter and the milk to boiling over medium-high heat. Gradually stir in caramelized sugar with whisk; cook and stir to 232°F. Remove from heat; cool to lukewarm, about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until frosting is smooth and spreadable. Using offset spatula and working quickly, frost cake (frosting will harden as it cools). Let stand 30 minutes before slicing.

APRICOT NECTAR POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 or 10 inch Bundt pan.
• In a large bowl, mix together the cake mix, eggs, 1/2 cup of sugar, oil, 3/4 cup of apricot nectar and brandy using an electric mixer on low speed. Mix for 3 minutes on high speed. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the crown of the cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan, then invert onto a serving plate.
• To make the icing, combine 3 tablespoons of apricot nectar, 3 tablespoons of sugar and butter in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring, until butter is melted and sugar has dissolved. Let cool one minute, then pour over the cake.

APPLE HARVEST POUND CAKE WITH CARAMEL GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9 inch Bundt pan.
• In a large bowl, beat the sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt; stir into the batter just until blended. Fold in the apples and walnuts using a spoon. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes in the preheated oven, until a toothpick inserted into the crown or the cake comes out clean. Allow to cool for about 20 minutes then invert on to a wire rack.
• Make the glaze by heating the butter, milk and brown sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar, then remove from the heat. Drizzle over the warm cake. I like to place a sheet of aluminum foil under the cooling rack to catch the drips for easy clean up.

POUND CAKE WITH CARAMEL ICING & APRICOT-GINGER SPRINKLES

Steps:

• POUND CAKE:.
• Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
• Gradually add sugars, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until yellow disappears after each addition.
• Stir together flour, salt, and baking soda.
• Add to butter mixture alternately with sour cream, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla.
• Pour into 2 greased and floured 9- x 5-inch loaf pans.
• Bake at 325°F for 1 hour to 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pans on a wire rack 10 minutes.
• Remove cakes from pans, and let cool 2 hours or until completely cool.
• PREPARE CARAMEL ICING:.
• Bring first 4 ingredients to a full rolling boil in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring often.
• Boil, stirring constantly, 1 minute.
• Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
• Beat at medium speed with an electric mixer 2 to 4 minutes or until thickened.
• Use immediately.
• Pour over cake, allowing it to drip down sides of cake.
• APRICOT-GINGER SPRINKLES:.
• Toss all ingredients together, and top pound cake no more than one hour before serving.
• Let stand 30 minutes or until icing is firm.
• Enjoy!

APRICOT GINGER POUND CAKE WITH RUM GLAZE (BUNDT)

Steps:

• To ensure all the ingredients are at room temperature, set them out at least 2 hours before making the batter.
• Position a rack in the lower third of an oven and preheat to 325°F
• Thoroughly grease and flour a 10-cup fleur-de-lis cake pan or standard Bundt pan.
• In a small bowl, whisk together the sour cream and milk until blended; set aside.
• Place the butter in the bowl of an electric mixer and sift the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder over the butter.
• Add the eggs, vanilla and sour cream mixture. Fit the bowl on the mixer and, using the paddle attachment, beat on low speed until the mixture is creamy and smooth, 1 1/2 to 2 minutes.
• Stop the mixer and scrape the sides of the bowl occasionally.
• Remove the bowl from the mixer and, using a large spatula, gently fold the ginger and apricots into the batter.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, spreading the batter so the sides are higher than the center.
• Bake until the cake begins to pull away from the sides of the pan and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Transfer the cake to a wire rack and cool upright in the pan for 10 minutes.
• Tap the sides of the pan and invert the cake out onto the rack. Set the rack over a sheet of waxed paper.
• To make the glaze, in a small bowl, whisk together the rum, water and sugar until blended.
• Using a pastry brush, generously brush the surface of the warm cake with the glaze.
• Let the glazed cake cool completely, 1 to 2 hours, before serving.
• Serves 16.