Fresh Strawberry Pound Cake Recipe
Fresh Strawberry Pound Cake Recipe – A delicious pound cake, perfectly dense, but so moist, with wonderful pops of fresh strawberries and a delicious strawberry glaze. With the use of strawberry puree and extract, it is undeniably fruity yet not overpowering.
Fresh Strawberry Pound Cake Recipe
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Resting Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Ingredients
For The Cake
- 1 pint fresh strawberries (this is for glaze below as well)
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 5 large Simply Nature Grade A Organic Cage Free Brown Eggs room temperature
- 3 cups all-purpose flour sifted
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp strawberry extract optional
- 1/2 tsp red food coloring optional
For The Glaze
- 2 tbsp strawberry puree reserved from cake
- 2 cups Baker’s Corner Powdered Sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp pure lemon juice or lime juice
Instructions
For The Cake
- Remove the stems and wash strawberries thoroughly. Next add strawberries to food processor or heavy duty blender and puree until smooth. Remove 2 tablespoons of puree and set aside for glaze later on.
- Then add strawberry puree to a small pot over medium heat and reduce the puree for 15-20 minutes or until you have ½ cup left. It should be pretty thick. Cool puree down to room temperature and set aside.
- Next preheat oven to 325 degrees and prepare a 12 cup Bundt pan with nonstick method of your choosing.
- In your mixer bowl, add butter and beat for 2 minutes on high speed. Slowly add in sugar and beat on high speed for an additional 4 minutes until very pale yellow and fluffy, might be a bit crumbly.
- Next, add eggs, one at a time, combining well after each addition and scraping down the sides of your bowl as needed.
- Turn your mixer down to its lowest speed, and slowly add flour in two increments, then add salt and baking soda. Be careful not to overbeat.
- Lastly, add buttermilk, the cooled strawberry puree, vanilla and strawberry extracts (and red food coloring if desired) and mix until just combined then stop.
- Pour cake batter into the Bundt pan and bake for 70 to 80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes then invert cake on serving plate.
For The Glaze
- Once cake has cooled to room temperature, whisk together 2 tablespoons of the strawberry puree, powdered sugar, vanilla and lemon or lime juice until smooth and thick, but pourable.
- Use your spoon to test this by seeing how it runs down the side of the spoon. If too thin, adjust with powdered sugar and if too thick, add a bit more juice until consistency is perfect. Glaze top of cooled cake and let set for 10 minutes then serve.
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