Moist, delicious buttermilk pound cake with a warm buttermilk syrup!
I
love pound cake! My favorite recipe is
cream cheese pound cake and that’s what I was going to make until I looked into the fridge and found out that I didn’t have any cream cheese…
yikes! So I took the basic pound cake ingredients and swapped out the cream cheese for some buttermilk and sour cream. To go with the buttermilk theme, I topped it off with some
delicious buttermilk syrup. This cake is dense, not too sweet and the syrup…
well let’s just say you’ll have a hard time not eating it straight from the bowl!
Ingredients are as follows:
cake:
3 C flour
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 C butter, softened
2 C sugar
1 C brown sugar
6 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 C buttermilk or (1 C milk + 1 tsp. lemon juice)
1/2 C sour cream
syrup:
1/2 C butter
1 C sugar
1/2 C buttermilk or (1/2 C milk + 1/2 tsp. lemon juice)
1 Tbsp. maple syrup
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Directions:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
Cream together the butter and sugars for about five minutes.
Add the eggs one at a time, making sure to mix well after each one.
By hand, stir in half of the dry ingredients.
Mix in the vanilla, buttermilk and sour cream.
Stir in the remaining dry ingredients.
Grease a bundt pan and sprinkle in a little sugar to evenly coat it.
Pour batter into the prepared pan.
Bake for 65-70 minutes; until a toothpick inserted in the center is clean.
Allow to cool for a little bit. While it’s cooling, place the butter, sugar, buttermilk and maple syrup in a pot and place over medium heat.
Bring them up to a boil, continue boiling for about three minutes.
Remove from heat and stir in the baking soda and vanilla.
Pour some syrup over the cake while it’s still in the pan.
Remove from pan; brush the cake with the remaining syrup. I brushed it on several times and still had some left over. I then just poured it onto the sliced pieces!
Slice, serve and enjoy!
That looks like a perfect weekend breakfast! Or snack with coffee– I'll have to try this!
Shanley
Oh my goodness, this is a fantastic recipe that I can't wait to try! Hope you have a special week end and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
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Miz Helen
I love the power of reinvention! Some of the best things came about because of being brave and trying different ingredients. I love that cake. I just drooled all over that last picture!! Just visiting from the May Blog Hop and am now following you. I would also love to invite you to link this up to Freedom Fridays Blog Hop.
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PS Check out my May 24th post where I am co hosting Katherine's Corner Thursday Favorite Things Blog Hop. TWO Parties, one place! So hoping to see you there!
Pound cake rocks! I know this one is outstanding ~ thanks for sharing.
Pat
oh that sounds sinful!