Lemon Pound Cake With Chambord Glaze
photo by Tastings by CeCe
- Ready In:
- 1hr 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
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16
ingredients
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Cake
- cooking spray
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups sugar
- 3⁄4 cup butter, softened
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons grated lemon rind
- 1⁄4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3⁄4 cup fat-free buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons Chambord raspberry liquor (raspberry-flavored liqueur)
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Glaze
- 3⁄4 cup powdered sugar
- 2 1⁄2 tablespoons Chambord raspberry liquor (raspberry-flavored liqueur)
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Coat a 12-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray; dust with 2 tablespoons granulated sugar. Set aside.
- Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, stirring well with a whisk.
- Place 2 cups granulated sugar and 3/4 cup butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy (about 4 minutes).
- Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Add rind, 1/4 cup juice, and vanilla; beat until combined.
- Beating at low speed, add flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to sugar mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture; beat just until combined (batter will be thick).
- Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack.
- Loosen cake from sides of pan using a narrow metal spatula. Place a plate upside down on top of cake; invert onto plate.
- Pierce cake liberally with a wooden pick. Brush 2 tablespoons liqueur over warm cake.
- GLAZE: Combine powdered sugar, 2 1/2 tablespoons liqueur, 1 tablespoon juice, and 1 tablespoon butter, stirring with a whisk until smooth.
- Drizzle slowly over warm cake.
- Cool completely.
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Reviews
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Great cake! Awesome flavor. The raspberry Chambord glaze, which I doubled, was wonderful! The pound cake portion of the recipe could use a bit of improvement as it was a bit too light to qualify as a pound cake. It was not as dense as one expects a pound cake to be, it's more like a sponge cake and I found it to be a little too fluffy. I think it needs more butter and less eggs. I will make this again but plan to tinker a bit with the ingredients next time. Otherwise, great tasting recipe. I just can't get enough Chambord!!
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Vino Girl
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My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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