Crunchy Top Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Sift flour and measure; resift twice with soda.
• Set aside.
• Cream oleo and add the sugar slowly, beating constantly to cream well.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
• Stir in sour cream.
• Add flour mixture, 1/2 cup at a time, beating well.
• Stir in vanilla and turn batter into a well greased and floured 10-inch tube pan.
• Bake in 325°F oven about 1 1/2 hours.
• Place pan on rack to cool 5 minutes.
• Loosen cake around edge of pan.
• Turn cake onto rack to cool completely.

Steps:

• Do not preheat the oven. Grease and flour the bottom, sides and tube of a 9-inch tube cake pan.
• Cream the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition, but do not overbeat. Set the mixer on slow speed and stir in the flour and cream alternately, beginning and ending with the flour. Add the vanilla and stir well.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and put the cake in a cold oven. Set the oven temperature to 325 degrees F. Begin timing now and bake the cake for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Test of doneness by inserting a toothpick in the center of the cake. The toothpick should be clean when it is removed. Cool in the pan for 30 minutes, then turn out onto a rack to continue cooling.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325º.
• Grease and flour bundt pan.
• Combine butter and shortening in mixer bowl.
• Add eggs and blend well.
• Add other ingredients.
• Beat on medium speed for 10 minutes.
• Pour into pan.
• Bake 70 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes.

Steps:

• Do not preheat oven.
• Grease a 12-cup tube pan.
• In a small bowl, blend all the topping ingredients with a fork and press into the bottom of the prepared pan; set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, blend the butter and sugar on low speed and beat until light and fluffy (approximately 5-6 minutes).
• Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Slowly stir in the sifted flour. Add the vanilla extract.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 1 hour at 325°F, or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Cool the cake in the pan for at least one hour.
• Invert the pan over a cake plate, cake should slide out nicely with a beautiful crunchy top!

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together in a mixer for 10 minutes.
• Pour into greased and floured bundt pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes at 325° or until golden brown and tests done.
• Cool and turn out onto rack.
• Turn it over onto a plate and the top will be crunchy.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C (350F).
• Lightly grease and base line a 7in deep round cake tin with greased greaseproof paper.
• Measure all the ingredients for the cake into a large bowl and beat well for about 2 minutes until smooth and well blended.
• Turn the mixture into the prepared tin and level the surface.
• Bake in the preheated oven for about 35-40 minutes or until the cake has shrunk slightly from the sides of the tin and springs back when lightly pressed with a finger.
• Whilst the cake is baking, make the crunchy topping.
• Measure the lemon juice and sugar into a bowl and stir until blended.
• When the cake comes out of the oven, spread the lemon paste over the top whilst the cake is still hot.
• Leave in a tin until cold, then turn out and remove the paper.