Quince Pound Cake Recipes

QUINCE POLENTA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter and flour an 8-inch round cake pan.
• Place quince in a bowl and cover with fresh water; add lemon juice and set aside.
• Cream together eggs and cane sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer on medium speed until pale. Add almond meal, polenta, yogurt, orange juice, orange zest, and baking powder and mix until just combined. Pour batter into the prepared cake pan.
• Drain the quince and top the batter with quince slices, pushing down slightly to make them fit.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Cover cake with aluminum foil and continue baking until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes more.
• Allow to cool about 30 minutes before topping with sliced almonds.

QUINCE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Peel, quarter, and core quinces. Cut quarters crosswise into 1/8-inch-thick slices. In a 3-quart heavy saucepan bring quince, water, sugar, honey, lemon juice and cinnamon to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer mixture, stirring occasionally, for 2 1/2 hours (quince will be deep pinkish orange). Drain quince in a large sieve and transfer to paper towels. Pat quince dry and cool. Chill quince covered for at least 1 hour and up to 3 days. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour a 9- by 2-inch round cake pan, knocking out excess flour. Into a bowl sift together twice flour, cinnamon, and salt. In another bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and sugar until combined well. Add yolk and whole eggs, 1 at a time, to butter mixture, beating well after each addition. Beat in half of flour mixture and all of cream until just combined. Add remaining flour mixture and vanilla, beating until just combined. Fold quince slices into batter until combined well and spread batter evenly in pan. Bake cake in middle of oven for 1 1/4 hours or until a tester comes out clean, then cool in pan on a rack 20 minutes. Turn cake out onto rack and cool completely.

QUICK POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar. Add almond extract.
• Add eggs and flour alternately.
• Place in two greased and floured loaf pans.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 60 minutes.
• Remove from pan and cool on racks.