Texas Size Orange Coconut Pecan Pound Cake Recipes

ORANGE-PECAN-SPICE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Sprinkle 1 1/4 cups finely chopped pecans into a generously buttered 10-inch tube pan; shake to evenly coat bottom and sides of pan. (The food processor is great for chopping those nuts!)
• (Excess nuts will fall to bottom of pan. Make certain nuts are in an even layer in bottom of pan.) Set aside. Preheat oven to 300°F.
• Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating well.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time; beating until blended after each addition.
• Combine flour, salt and baking powder; add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Beat at low speed until blended after each addition.
• Stir in remaining 3/4 cup pecans, grated orange rind, cinnamon, nutmeg, and next 4 ingredients.
• Spoon batter evenly into prepared pan.
• Bake at 300°F for about 1 1/2 hours or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• While cake is baking, prepare Orange Syrup (see below).
• Cool in pan on wire rack for 20 minutes.
• Remove cake from pan; invert cake, pecan crust-side-up onto a wire rack.
• While cake is cooling, bake Glazed Pecan Halves (see below).
• Brush top and sides of pound cake gently several times with hot Orange Syrup, using a pastry brush and allowing cake to absorb the Orange Syrup after each brushing. (Do not pour syrup over the cake).
• Let cake cool completely on wire rack.
• Arrange Glazed Pecan Halves around top of cake, if desired, or place on each piece as they are served.
• For Orange Syrup: Remove rind from orange with a vegetable peeler, being careful not to get the bitter white pith.
• Set orange rind aside.
• Squeeze orange to get 1/2 cup juice.
• Combine orange rind, juice and sugar in a small saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
• Bring mixture to a boil over medium high heat, and boil 2 minutes.
• Makes about 1 cup.
• For Glazed Pecan Halves: Combine pecan halves and corn syrup, stirring ot coat pecans.
• Line a 15- x 10-inch jellyroll pan with parchment paper; coat with cooking spray.
• Arrange pecan halves in an even layer in a pan.
• Bake at 350°F for 12 minutes; stir using a rubber spatula.
• Remove from oven, stir, arrange in an even layer on wax paper and let cool completely.

ORANGE-PECAN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Using an electric mixer, beat the butter in a mixing bowl on medium speed for about 2 minutes or until soft and creamy.
• Gradually add in the sugar; beat at medium speed 5-7 minutes.
• Add in eggs, one at a time, beating just until the yellow disappears.
• Add in rinds and orange extract, stir to combine.
• In a small bowl, add nuts and 1/4 cup flour; stir to combine; set aside.
• Add remaining flour, baking powder, and salt to a bowl; stir to combine.
• Add flour mixture to butter mixture alternately with milk; begin and end with flour mixture.
• Mix on low speed just until blended after each addition.
• Add in pecans; stir to combine.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 9x5 inch loaf pan.
• Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 5 minutes or until pick comes out clean.
• Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10-15 minutes.
• Turn out of pan and let cool completely on wire rack.

COCONUT PECAN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Combine dry ingredients.
• Add liquid ingredients.
• Beat to blend well.
• Fold in pecans and coconut.
• Pour batter into greased and floured bundt pan.
• Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until tests done.
• Let cake cool 10 minutes before removing from pan.
• Pour glaze over warm cake.

DAPHNE OZ'S COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar and butter; beat with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, approximately 3 minutes.
• Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl.
• Add flour mixture to batter alternately with buttermilk, in 3 parts; mix gently until just moistened.
• Stir in coconut and pecans.
• Pour batter into a pound cake mold (loaf shaped pan).
• Bake for 60 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
• For the glaze:.
• Five minutes before cake is finished baking make the glaze.
• Combine water, butter and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook for 5 minutes.
• Slowly pour half the syrup over the cake (bottom), invert onto a serving plate and pour remaining syrup over the top.
• Dust with powdered sugar.
• Let stand for 10 minutes and eat warm!

COCONUT PECAN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour tube pan.
• 2. Cream the sugar and shortening.
• 3. Add eggs one at a time mixing completely.
• 4. Mix salt into the flour and add to the mixture a little at a time. Mix well.
• 5. Add the vanilla and lemon extract.
• 6. Mix in the coconut and pecans.
• 7. Pour batter in pan and bake for 1 hour.
• 8. About 5-7 minutes before the cake is done, prepare the glaze. Boil all the glaze ingredients for 1 full minute to ensure the sugar has dissolved. Pour it on the cake just as you take out of the oven. Let it soak in and then raise the cake on a trivet to cool.

TEXAS PECAN PIE POUND CAKE RECIPE - (3.8/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F. In a mixer, cream butter, cream cheese, and sugar until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time. Then add flour one cup at a time. Last, add vanilla flavoring. Grease and flour tube/bundt pan and pour in batter. Once the batter has been poured in, sprinkle pecans and brown sugar on top (a cup or little more of each). Lightly press into the batter. Bake at 300°F for 1 hour and 15 minutes. (You may want to tent the top with foil to keep the nuts from scorching.) Then, increase the temperature to 325°F and bake for an additional 30 minutes. Test the cake with a fork or wooden skewer to check for doneness. The utensil should come out dry and clean (no batter). Bake 5 more minutes if needed. Remove from the oven and allow a few minutes to cool before removing from pan. When you invert onto a plate, you may lose a few nuts, but most should bake into the top layer of crust. Turn the cake onto another plate so that the nuts are on top. Drizzle cake with a jar of caramel ice cream topping. Heat from the cake will make the caramel melt over the pecans. Enjoy!

COCONUT PECAN CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the eggs, 2 cups sugar, oil and 2 teaspoons extract. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to egg mixture alternately with buttermilk just until moistened. stir in coconut and pecans. , Spoon into a greased 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 350° for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean., Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, combine the water, butter and remaining sugar. Bring to a boil; cook for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat; add remaining extract. , Slowly pour hot syrup over hot cake. Cool in pan for 4 hours before removing to a serving plate. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.

TEXAS PECAN CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Grease and flour a 10 inch tube pan or bundt pan.
• Cream butter in a large mixing bowl; gradually add sugar, beating until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Sift 3 1/2 cups flour and baking powder together, reserving 1/2 cup flour.
• Gradually add to creamed mixture alternately with lemon extract, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Beat well after each addition (the batter will be quite thick).
• Dredge pecans and raisins in remaining 1/2 cup flour; stir into batter.
• Spoon batter into prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 3/4 hours or until cake tests done with a toothpick.
• Cool in pan 15 minutes.
• Turn out onto cooling rack and let cool completely before serving.

TEXAS COCONUT POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Cream butter, Crisco, and sugar.
• 2. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
• 3. Add coconut flavoring.
• 4. Sift flour and add baking powder.
• 5. Alternate adding flour and milk to sugar mixture.
• 6. Add coconut.
• 7. Spray tube pan with Crisco non-stick spray with flour. Bake at 350 for 1 hr to 1 hr 15 minutes.
• 8. Cool in pan for 10 minutes turn on a cooling rack.
• 9. Note: You can make a glaze of powdered sugar, milk and a small amount of coconut flavoring. Also, if you want to add toasted coconut, put shredded coconut on a baking sheet and toast in the oven for about 5 minutes.

TEXAS SIZE ORANGE COCONUT PECAN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 300 Degrees F. Have patience, this is going to take a while to create perfection, it will be worth all of your efforts. This is the 30 cup bundt pan that I used. In case you are wondering The pan was ordered from Fantes.com. The place to order the pan is www.fantes.com, it is a huge store located in Phidelphia all FOOD/COOKING RELATED ITEMS. Click on Bundt pans, then go near the bottom, and you will find the 30 cup capacity one. All the pans list the capacity, but the one near the bottom is the one I used for this recipe. Good Luck, shipment is very fast. I ordered on Monday, & had my pan by Thursday.
• 2. In your large mixing bowl, add the softened butter, and beat till it comes together & is very creamy.
• 3. Measure out sugar into a medium size bowl, then add the orange gelatin and stir TO blend.
• 4. Gradually add sugar mixture to softened butter, and continue to beat till nice and creamy, and no granules remain, about 12 minutes.
• 5. Add yolks one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 6. Measure out flour into a sifter and sift into another bowl at least 2 times. This will lighten the cake batter.
• 7. Gradually begin to add flour to the creamed mixture, but alternate with the whipping cream. I showed 1 unit in the pix but I used 2 cups.
• 8. Add orange zest.
• 9. Add orange extract and continue beating to blend.
• 10. Combine chopped pecans with unsweetened coconut and add to cake batter. Beat till blended.
• 11. At this point I had to switch to a much larger bowls and you may need to also. I finished the cake by hand using a spatula, or you can use a large spoon.
• 12. After switching to a larger bowl, add the drained raisins, and then blend together in the mixing bowl.
• 13. Now with a clean beater, beat the egg whites till they form stiff peaks, if it is a rainy day the peaks will not get too stiff.
• 14. Add beaten egg whites to bowl, and gently FOLD egg whites into cake batter,by going from top to bottom all the while slowly turning the bowl. THE PURPOSE OF THE BEATEN EGG WHITE IS TO INCORPORATE AIR INTO THE CAKE BATTER TO MAKE IT LIGHTER.
• 15. Spray cake pan with Bakers Joy or use soften butter & dust with flour, shake out any excess flour. Make sure all the sides, bottom and the tube are coated.
• 16. Pour Cake batter evenly into cake pan and smooth out top of cake with a spatula or back of a spoon. You should have at least 2 inches of space in pan to allow for cake to rise during baking.
• 17. Place cake in preheated 300 degree F. oven, and bake for 2 hours and 5 minutes, or till tooth pick or dry strand of spaghetti inserted into middle of cake comes out clean. DO NOT OPEN OVEN DOOR DURING THE FIRST HOUR OR SO OF BAKING. IF USING 2 BUNDT PANS CHECK AFTER THE FIRST HOUR AND 15 MINUTES.
• 18. When cake is done, remove from oven & allow to sit at least 15 minutes, till cake pulls away from the walls of the cake pan.Note the depth of the cake batter in Step #16, when compared to Step #18, & how much the cake rose during baking.
• 19. Place a large platter over top of cake pan and invert onto platter.
• 20. LET CAKE COOL COMPLETELY BEFORE FROSTING. I left mine out over night and made frosting the next morning.
• 21. TO PREPARE FROSTING: Add butter & powdered sugar to a medium size bowl, & beat till smooth and creamy. Then add orange extract and orange marmalade and beat again till blended. Now add unsweetened coconut, & chopped nuts. If mixture is too stiff, add heavy whipping cream 1 tablespoon at a time, till desired spreading consistency is reached. Now you are ready to frost and garnish your cake if desired.This frosting is the ideal amount if frosting 2 cakes, otherwise save left overs for cupcakes or another day, or divide recipe in half refrigerate or freeze leftovers till needed.
• 22. Slice and serve to guest. Enjoy the compliments.