Summer Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg whites, then egg, beating well after each addition. Beat in lemon juice and extracts. Combine the flours, baking powder, salt and baking soda; add to the creamed mixture alternately with yogurt., Transfer to a 10-in. fluted tube pan coated with cooking spray. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely., For glaze, in a small bowl, whisk the confectioners' sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest until blended. Stir in apricots. Drizzle over cake.

Steps:

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

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees. Lightly butter and flour a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan, and set aside.
• Dice 1 peach into 1/3-inch pieces. Pat the pieces dry with a paper towel and set aside.
• Add the remaining 2 peaches and the lemon juice to a food processor or blender, and blend on high until completely puréed. Measure out 1 leveled cup of the purée and transfer it to a mixing bowl along with the melted butter, eggs, egg yolk and vanilla. Whisk to combine and set aside.
• Completely scrape down the sides of the food processor, and make the icing using the small amount of puréed peaches still remaining: Add 1 cup of the confectioners' sugar to the remaining peach purée in the food processor and blend on high until combined. The icing should be thick but thin enough to drizzle. Add more confectioners' sugar to thicken or a splash of water to thin, as needed. Cover and set aside until it's time to ice the cake.
• In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt, and whisk to combine. Pour the peach mixture into the flour mixture, and whisk well until the batter is thoroughly combined, then fold in the diced peaches. Transfer the batter to the loaf pan, spread evenly to the edges, and bake until crusty and golden brown on the top and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 75 to 80 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
• Stir the icing a final time and spread it on top of the warm cake, allowing the extra icing to drip down the sides. Cool the cake to room temperature. Slice and serve, or wrap tightly with plastic wrap and store on the counter for up to 3 days.

Steps:

• preheat oven to 325. Cream cheese and butter should be room temperature.
• Mix together cream cheese, butter, shortening, eggs, sugar, and vanilla. Next add the milk salt and baking powder. Add cake flour a half a cup at a time. Batter will be thick. Pour into bundt pan. Bake for 1 hr 15 minutes
• I prefer to add the glaze while its still warm.