Cinnamon Swirl Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch bundt pan.
• Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add eggs one at a time, allowing each egg to blend into the butter mixture before adding the next. Mix in vanilla.
• Combine flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Pour flour mixture into batter alternately with the sour cream, mixing until just incorporated. Fold in walnuts, mixing just enough to evenly combine. Pour half the batter into the prepared pan.
• Mix the remaining 1/4 cup of white sugar with the cinnamon.
• Sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the batter in the pan. Drop remaining cake batter in heaping spoonfuls over filling, covering it as best you can.
• Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes. Lower heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) and bake for an additional 40 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean.

Steps:

• Position oven rack in the center of oven; preheat oven to 325°; grease the inside of a 10-inch bundt pan; dust the pan with flour.
• To make the cinnamon swirl: in a small bowl, whisk the flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt together; break up any large clumps of brown sugar.
• Add in melted butter and stir until blended and crumbly.
• To make the pound cake: sift together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cardamom into a bowl; whisk to combine; set aside.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer, using the paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium speed until very creamy, about 2 minutes.
• Gradually add in the sugar; beat at med-high speed until well blended and light, about 4 minutes.
• On medium speed, add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
• Beat in the vanilla extract and orange zest.
• On low speed, add the dry ingredients in three additions, alternating with the buttermilk in two additions and mixing just until combined.
• Scrape half the batter into the prepared pan and smooth it into an even layer.
• Sprinkle the streusel mixture evenly over the batter; scrape the remaining batter on top and smooth it into an even layer.
• Bake the cake for 65-75 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean.
• Cool the cake in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes.
• Invert cake onto the rack, turn cake right side up, and cool completely.
• Dust cake lightly with powdered sugar just before serving.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease or spray bundt cake pan.
• Mix ingredients from cake mix through eggs together and beat well.
• In a separate small bowl, mix sugar and cinnamon together.
• Sprinkle a small amount of sugar and cinnamon mixture in the bottom of the bundt pan.
• Pour one-third of the batter in the bundt pan.
• Sprinkle cinnamon sugar mixture over the batter,.
• Pour one-third of the batter in the bundt pan.
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• Pour one-third of the batter in the bundt pan.
• Sprinkle cinnamon sugar mixture over the batter,.
• Take a butter knife and swirl through the batter to distribute the cinnamon sugar into the batter.
• Bake for 50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
• Let cake stand in pan to cool 10 to 15 minutes and then turn out onto a plate. You can dust with powdered sugar if desired.