Bourbon Pecan Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Combine butter and sugar in bowl of electric mixer and blend until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating constantly.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg.
• Blend sour cream and bourbon.
• Alternately add flour and sour cream mixture to batter.
• Add pecans.
• Grease bottom and sides of tube or bunt pan.
• Pour in batter and bake at 325 degrees for about one hour and 30 minutes.
• Test cake frequently after first hour and 15 minutes for doneness.
• Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes before turning out on wire rack.
• To prepare glaze, combine sugar and bourbon.
• Stir while gradually adding water.
• Add only enough water to make a pourable glaze without allowing mixture to become too thin.
• Pour glaze over top of warm cake and let dribble down sides.

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, cream shortening; gradually add in sugar, beating well using an electric mixer on medium speed.
• Add in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg; set aside.
• In another bowl, combine sour cream and bourbon; add to creamed mixture alternately with flour mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Mix just until blended after each addition.
• Fold in pecans.
• Pour batter into a greased/floured 10-inch tube pan.
• Bake in a 325° oven for 1 hour and 10 to 15 minutes or until pick comes out clean.
• Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 10-15 minutes.
• Remove cake from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.
• In a bowl, combine all the glaze ingredients; stir well.
• Drizzle glaze over cooled cake.

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. Combine the bourbon, milk and vanilla in a separate bowl (it may get clumpy looking--that's ok) and set aside.
• In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and coconut oil until fluffy, about 1 minute. Add 1 3/4 cups of the granulated sugar and beat until fluffy, about 1 more minute. Add the egg yolks one at a time, mixing well between additions. Add the dry ingredients in four batches, alternating with the wet mixture, starting and ending with the dry. Stir in the pecans.
• In a stand mixer with a whisk attachment and a clean bowl, whip the egg whites with the cream of tartar on medium until soft peaks form. Sprinkle in the remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar and whip to stiff peaks, about 5 minutes total. Fold the egg whites into the batter in thirds.
• Pour into a bundt pan and bake until a cake tester comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes. Let cool before turning the cake out of the pan.
• For the glaze: In a medium bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, bourbon and 2 tablespoons water. Once the cake is cool, top it with the glaze and sprinkle with the chopped pecans.

Steps:

• Position oven rack in the lower middle position; preheat to 350°; prepare Bundt pan by making a paste from 1 tablespoon melted butter and 1 tablespoon flour; apply it with a pastry brush so you can thoroughly coat the surface of the pan, including all the nooks and crannies.
• Nut filling: Toss all the filling ingredients together in a bowl.
• Cake: Whisk the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl; in a small bowl, whisk buttermilk, molasses, bourbon, and vanilla together.
• In a big bowl, beat the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy--3 to 6 minutes.
• Beat in the eggs and egg yolk, one at a time, until combined, about 1 minute.
• Decrease mixer speed to low; beat in 1/3 of the flour mixture, followed by half of the buttermilk mixture; repeat with half the remaining flour mixture and the remaining buttermilk mixture.
• Beat in the remaining flour mixture until just incorporated.
• Scrape half the batter into the prepared pan, smooth the top; sprinkle evenly with the nut filling.
• Scrape the remaining batter over the nuts and smooth the top.
• Wipe any drops of batter off the sides of the pan and gently tap the pan on the counter to settle the batter.
• Bake the cake until a wooden pick comes out with a few moist crumbs attached, 50-60 minutes, rotating pan halfway through baking.
• Let cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack; let cake cool completely, about 2 hours.
• Glaze: Whisk all the glaze ingredients together until smooth, then let sit until thickened, about 25 minutes.
• Drizzle the bourbon glaze over the top and sides of the cake; let glaze set, about 25 minutes, before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Grease and flour a 12 cup tube or bundt pan.
• Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until the yellow yolk disappears.
• Sift together flour and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with bourbon, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Beat batter at low speed just until blended after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla and pecans.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 12-cup tube pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes to 1 hour and 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes.
• Remove from pan; cool completely on wire rack.

Steps:

• Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together.
• Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time.
• Fold in half the flour, then fold in the milk, then the remaining flour, followed by the bourbon and vanilla.
• Pour the batter into two lightly greased and floured 9-inch loaf pans and run the blade of a knife through the batter in an X pattern from corner to corner of the pans to eliminate air bubbles.
• Place the pans in the center of a cool oven, leaving a space between them.
• Turn the oven to 325F and bake for about 1 hour, until a wooden skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
• Turn off the oven and let the cakes cool in the oven for 10 minutes.
• Open the oven door and cool for 30 minutes.
• Turn the cakes out onto a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 300*F grease and flour a 10 inch bundt or tube pan. Then sprinkle the bottom of the pan with 1/2 cup of chopped Pecans. Set Aside.
• 2. Cream butter and sugar well, then add egg yolks one at a time mixing completely after each addition.
• 3. Add flour, extracts and bourbon, then combine and set aside.
• 4. Whip the egg whites till stiff peaks form. Fold the egg whites into the batter until well combined.
• 5. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle the remaining pecans over the top of the batter.
• 6. Bake at 300*F for 1-1/2 hours or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
• 7. You may feed this cake 2-3 tablespoons of Apricot brandy every two weeks or until The holidays. Lovely old fashioned bourbon pecan cake.