So here’s the thing, this isn’t your old-school pound cake, with a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, eggs and flour – but it is close. There’s butter, sugar, eggs and flour here but there’s also some flavor and moisture adding stuff like sour cream, lemon zest, and lemon juice, which I love because it gives this cake a slight lemon flavor which goes great with this strawberry glaze. I chose to make this pound cake in a bundt pan simply because I love my bundt pans and I try and use them every chance I get, but you could use a bread pan if you wish or whatever pan you prefer. But I do think this cake looks way prettier in that all familiar bundt shape. But this cake is really all about that strawberry glaze. Not only does it give this cake a gorgeous color but it gives it that amazing strawberry flavor. And let’s be serious, what’s a pound cake if it’s not loaded with glaze and fruits. Pretty boring, right? Well not this cake. Now you will have some leftover glaze, but don’t worry about it, just do what I do. Drizzle some more over every slice you serve and top it with more strawberries and whipped cream.
Ingredients
Cake
Dry ingredients – All purpose flour, baking powder and baking soda, and salt! Butter – Unsalted as we want to control the sodium content of our cake. Oil – We want a light neutral tasting oil to add lots of moisture. I use a light vegetable oil like canola. Eggs – The binder in our cake. Dairy – We’re using milk – any milk, and sour cream today. Don’t worry the sour cream won’t take over the flavor of the cake, it will add brightness and moisture to our batter. Lemon – Both fresh juice and fresh zest, they’re needed to add some acidity to our cake to help combat all those rich flavors. Vanilla – Just some extract to help round out our flavors, it’s a flavor secret weapon in baking!
Glaze
Strawberries – I used fresh today, you can also use frozen. Sugar – Just some white granulated sugar to give a nice clean sweetness. Lemon – Fresh juice to brighten up our glaze, also is there anything better than a lemony glaze? Cornstarch – Added to help our glaze thicken and reach the right consistency without imparting any flavor.
How To Make Strawberry Glazed Pound Cake
Glaze Made Easy
While most strawberries glazes call for pressing the mixture through a fine mesh to remove the seeds, forget about it. Just put everything in a blender and there won’t be anymore seeds, you’ll get a nice and smooth glaze. You can store leftover glaze in the fridge for up to 4 days in an airtight container, although who ever heard of leftover glaze?
How to Tell When My Cake Is Done Baking
Every oven is different, and what works perfectly for me might not be the case for you. Have no fear, toothpicks are here! Use a clean toothpick and poke as deep as you can into the thickest part of the cake. If it comes out clean, then your cake is all done. If there’s some batter stuck to it, add 5-10 extra minutes until the cake is fully baked.
Looking To Cut Calories?
If you’d like to cut some calories, replace the vegetable oil for 1/4 cup apple sauce. You can also replace the sour cream with Greek yogurt.
Some Tips
Don’t over mix your batter. Make sure your bundt pan is properly sprayed with cooking spray, baking spray or greased with butter. Even if it’s a nonstick bundt pan, it doesn’t hurt to grease the pan. You might even want to use a pastry brush to grease the pan, it makes it a lot easier. A good bundt cake recipe should only fill about 2/3 of the pan. Any more and you’ll end up with rounded tops, which might not be a bad thing, but your bundt cake won’t sit flat on the serving platter. Give your cake sufficient time to cool before getting it out of the pan. Keep in mind that as the cake cools, it will slowly release itself from the sides of the pan, so resist the urge to pull it out immediately. Wait a good 10 minutes before trying to get it out of the pan.
Storing Leftovers
One question I get asked often is “Do I need to refrigerate my cakes?”. My answer is no, you don’t. All you need is a covered cake plate and the cake will keep quite well at room temperature. Besides, refrigerating a cake might dry it out, plus the cold can dull the flavor. So if you have a covered cake plate, your cake will keep just fine for several days. If you don’t have a covered cake plate, use a bowl, such as the bowl from your salad spinner to cover the cake.
Freezing
Let the cake cool completely. Cut the cake into individual slices, then wrap each one in plastic wrap then place them in a freezer bag and freeze for up to 1 month.
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