Barbs Almond Pound Cake Recipes

ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, blend together butter and sugar.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Sift together dry ingredients.
• Add to the butter mixture, alternating with the buttermilk.
• Stir in the extracts and beat until smooth.
• Butter the sides and bottom of a bundt pan.
• Press almonds against sides.
• Pour batter into the pan.
• Bake 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Let cake cool in pan 10 minuts then remove from pan and cool on a rack.
• Dust with powdered sugar.

BARB'S ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°.
• Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
• Cream butter and sugar till fluffy; beat in eggs one at a time. Blend in vanilla, peel and almond filling.
• Stir together dry ingredients and add alternately with buttermilk.
• Pour into pan and bake at 325° for 55-70 minutes.
• Test with toothpick or bamboo skewer to see if done.
• Cool in wire rack 20 minutes before removing from pan.
• Remove from pan and cool completely.

ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Get all ingredients to room temperature.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cream butter and sugar together.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating for 1 minute between each egg. I sometimes mix the eggs and add slowly to the mixture.
• Add the entire bottle of Almond Extract and the vanilla and beat until well mixed.
• Add flour and milk, beginning and ending with the flour. I add 1 cup flour, then 1/2 cup milk, 1 cup flour, 1/2 cup milk, 1 cup flour.
• Pour into a bundt pan, prepared with Bakers Joy.
• Bake 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes. NOTE: this also makes great layers, reduce baking time to 45 minutes if you choose this method.
• Homemade Cream Cheese Icing makes this delicious cake even more yummy!

DUNCAN HINES ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl, combine cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, water, oil and almond extract.
• Beat at low speed with electric mixer until moistened.
• Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes.
• Stir in almonds with a spoon.
• Pour into a greased and floured 10-inch Bundt pan.
• Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and cool in pan for 25 minutes.
• Invert onto cooling rack. Cool completely.
• Dust with confectioners' sugar.

ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325°F.
• Butter and flour a loaf pan or small square pan (8"x8").
• Cream the butter and sugar.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time.
• Beat in the almond extract and the water.
• Stir together the flour, ground almonds and baking powder.
• Stir this into the wet ingredients.
• Pour evenly into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 45 minutes for a loaf pan.
• Bake for 50 minutes in the square pan, or in either case until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.

ALMOND POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°. In a large bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in extract. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture. Beat just until combined., Transfer to two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Bake 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Serve with raspberries and whipped cream if desired.

ALMOND CRUNCH POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch springform pan.
• Combine slivered almonds, 1/3 cup white sugar, 1/4 cup butter, and milk in a small saucepan over low heat; cook and stir until butter is melted and mixture is smooth, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove topping from heat.
• Combine 1 1/2 cup flour, cream of tartar, and salt in a bowl.
• Beat 3/4 cup softened butter and almond paste in a large bowl using an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add 1 cup white sugar and continue beating until mixture is light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Beat in eggs one at a time, beating 1 minute after each addition; stir in lemon juice, lemon zest, and vanilla extract. Add flour mixture and beat until batter is just mixed, about 1 minute more; pour into the prepared pan and smooth the top.
• Sprinkle remaining 1 tablespoon flour evenly over batter. Spoon the topping over the flour layer.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.