Summer Pound Cake

Submitted by ellie_

"This delicious summer desert tastes great with other summer fruits or berries, depending what you have on hand. This is very good plain dusted with sugar or served with vanilla ice cream. Recipe source: Bon Appetit (July 1986)"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 40mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Yields: 1 cake

ingredients

• 5 eggs
• 1 2⁄3 cups sugar
• 1 1⁄4 cups butter or 1 1/4 cups margarine, cut into pieces
• 2 tablespoons orange juice or 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 1⁄2 cups cake flour, divided
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup strawberry, stemmed and cut into slices
• 1 cup peach, peeles and cut iinto small pieces

directions

1. Spray a bundt pan with cooking spray and dust with flour.
2. Set aside.
3. Preheat oven to 300- degrees F.
4. Using a food processor and the steel knife, blend eggs and sugar for one minute or until smooth and thick.
5. Scrape down sides of work bowl.
6. Add butter pieces and juice through food tube, blend for 1 minute.
7. Scrape down sides of work bowl.
8. Add 2 cups plus 6 tablespoons flour, baking powder and salt and blend using 2 on/off turns.
9. Toss fruit with remaining flour in a large bowl.
10. Fold batter into fruit mixture.
11. Pour into prepared pan, spreading evenly.
12. Bake for 1 hour 25 minutes or cake tests done with toothpick.
13. Cool in pan for 5 minutes before inverting and cooling completly.

Reviews

[Trisha W]

Very tasty dessert. I dusted with powdered sugar and served with icecream. I think it might be good served with whipped topping. We each had a piece tonight. I plan to take the rest to a dinner party on Tuesday night where I am suppose to bring dessert.