Almond Sour Cream Pound Cake Paula Deen Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Butter and flour a tube pan and set aside.
• In the bowl of a mixer, cream butter and sugar together and then add sour cream.
• Sift flour and baking soda together. Add to creamed mixture, alternately with eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.
• Add extracts and stir to combine.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
• Cool cake in pan for about 10 minutes and then unmold and cool completely on a wire rack.
• Almond Buttercream Frosting: With an electric mixer, cream butter in a large mixing bowl. Slowly beat in the sugar until smooth and creamy and sweetened to your liking (about 2 minutes). Add almond extract and stir to blend.
• Frost cake when fully cooled. If you are not using the frosting immediately, store it, covered, in the refrigerator and then bring it to room temperature just prior to using. Yield: 3 cups.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325.
• Cream butter and sugar together with your heavy-duty mixer.
• Add the sour cream and mix thoroughly.
• Sift baking soda and flour together.
• Add the flour to the creamed mixture, alternating with one egg at a time (about 1/2 cup of flour each time).
• Mix well after each addition.
• Add the vanilla and mix well.
• Spoon the mixture into a well greased and floured 10 inch tube or bundt pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in cake tests COMPLETELY clean.
• Let cake cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
• Invert cake on wire rack, removing from pan and let cool completely.
• Frost as desired (powdered sugar glaze is good) or leave plain and garnish with fresh berried and freshly whipped cream.

Steps:

• Place all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and stir together with a wire whisk.
• Add the remaining ingredients and beat on medium speed for 2 minutes.
• Pour into greased and floured cake pans, filling each pan a little over half full.
• Lightly tap cake pans on counter to bring air bubbles to top.
• Bake in preheated 325° F oven until cake tests done.
• Baking time varies according to the size and depth of pans being used.
• I used Wilton's Bake Even Strips on my cake pans to ensure a level-topped cake which required absolutely no trimming-- I highly recommend these, or good quality professional baking pans.
• In 2" deep pans, this recipe makes:.
• One 14" round and one 6" round.
• or One 16" round.
• or One 12" round and one 10" round.
• or One 12 X 18" sheet cake.
• or One 12" round and one 8" round and one 6" round.
• or Two 9" squares.
• or 5 dozen cupcakes.
• Half the recipe makes:.
• Two 7" rounds.
• or Two 6" rounds and 6 cupcakes.
• For chocolate cake: use chocolate mixes and substitute 6 whole eggs for the egg whites.
• For liqueur flavors: substitute alcohol (such as champagne or Kahlua) for about 1 cup of the water in the recipe.
• For berry flavors: use frozen berries, thaw reserving the juice. Substitute the berry juice for part of the water in the recipe, and stir the berries in at the end.
• For lemon cake: substitute lemon juice for about 1 cup of the water in the recipe, use 6 whole eggs instead of the whites, stir in 1 Tblsp lemon zest, and use 1 tsp of a good lemon extract in place of the almond.
• For white chocolate: melt 8oz white baking chocolate & cool slightly. use 6 whole eggs in the recipe instead of the whites, temper the chocolate by stirring in a small amount of the batter, then add the white chocolate to the entire batter and stir well. Doesn't bake up quite as high as the original, so add a pinch more batter to the pans.