Serious Eats - seriouseats.com
Glazed Orange Pound Cake
This pound cake is flavored with orange and ginger and topped with a sweet orange glaze.
About This Recipe
| Yield: | serves 12 |
| Active time: | 30 minutes |
| Total time: | 2 hours |
| Special equipment: | 9 inch springform pan |
| This recipe appears in: | Wake and Bake: Glazed Orange Pound Cake |
Ingredients
- For Cake:
- 3 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3 cups sugar
- 2 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 8 eggs
- 1 cup whole milk
- 3 3/4 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon ground ginger
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon finely grated orange zest
- For Glaze:
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
Procedures
-
1
Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter a 9 inch springform pan.
-
2
In a large bowl, beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add vanilla extract and beat to combine.
-
3
Beat in eggs, one at a time.
-
4
In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, ginger, baking powder, and salt.
-
5
Add 1/3 of flour mixture to wet ingredients. Beat to combine. Add 1/2 of milk and beat to combine. Add remaining flour in two additions, alternating with last of milk. Beat in orange zest.
-
6
Pour batter into prepared cake pan. Bake until golden and a cake tester comes out clean, about 90 minutes.
-
7
While cake is cooling, make glaze: In a small bowl, whisk together orange juice and confectioners' sugar until smooth.
-
8
When cake is cool, pour 1/2 of glaze over top of cake. When first layer of glaze has begun to dry, top with remaining glaze.
Comments