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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Six Flavor Pound Cake

Six Flavor Pound Cake and Tahitian Vanilla infused Strawberries




This sweet delicious cake is a variation of five flavor pound cake.  I gild the lily a bit by adding an extra flavor.  I am going to let you in on a little secret….

This is between me and you.  The  flavor that takes this cake from good to …DAMN! is a flavor you will not find in the grocery store. Are you ready? It is called: Crème Bouquet. You can find this in cake decorating or chefs supply stores. I can almost guarantee that you will want to use this in your other treats too. It'll be our little secret. When I baked this cake the scent seduced, teased, and begged me to sink my teeth into it like a starving person at a last chance buffet. The cake on its own could take center stage, but I couldn’t stop there. Oh no…there is a co-star in this production. Tahitian Vanilla infused strawberries.

Sweet, juicy, succulent. This  cake is like a classic piece of clothing with the perfect accessory.  The strawberries are the perfect accent for a delicious cake that has a sweet sticky glaze that tastes like a cornucopia of flavors from a lifesavers pack.  Go ahead savor this delicious treat and I won’t tell anyone if you lick the spoon…





Cake Ingredients



1 cup butter
1/2 cup Crisco
3 cups sugar
6 large eggs
3 cups cake flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon lemon flavoring
1 teaspoon butter flavoring
1 teaspoon coconut flavoring
1 teaspoon rum flavoring
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon crème bouquet flavoring

Glaze

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon lemon flavoring
1 teaspoon butter flavoring
1 teaspoon coconut flavoring
1 teaspoon rum flavoring
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon crème bouquet flavoring

1 Cream butter and Crisco.
2 Add 3 cups sugar and cream again (cream for 5-7 minutes).
Beat eggs until lemon color and add to mixture.
3 Sift together: flour, baking powder and salt.
4 Alternate milk and 1 tsp all flavorings w/sifted dry ingredients. Pour into a greased and floured bundt or 10 inch tube pan.
5 Bake 325° for 1 ½ hours or until cake tests done or depending on oven. Cool cake for 10 minutes and flip onto cake plate. Take a toothpick and poke holes all over cake
6 Dissolve glaze ingredients over low heat in a saucepan. Spoon glaze over cake in 
while hot. Let cool in pan.

Note: make sure ingredients are at room temperature before preparing cake.


Yes, I am tempting you with a close up of the cake with warm glaze dripping down the side and a puddle of sumptious glaze resting underneath the cake.  This is no ordinary pound cake...

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 This is the Tahitian vanilla infused strawberries resting on the cake. . Am I tempting you? Is it working?


Tahitian Vanilla infused strawberries


You will need:

Syringe Flavor Injector
1 cup Sugar
1-cup water
2 Tahitian Vanilla Beans

slice vanilla bean and scrape out the seeds and stir into the water. Add  sugar and then put the whole vanilla beans  and sugar water  into the saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat and cook stirring until sugar has dissolved. Let cool completely then use injector to inject 2 teaspoons into each strawberry. If you make this a few days in advance the flavor will be more intense because the flavor from the vanilla beans becomes more pronounced the longer it rests in the liquid.
Add some panache by serving with a 14K gold fork!

 Note: this works beautifully with liquors. I would highly recommend sweet liquors such as Grand Marnier, Moscato D Asti, Riesling or Ice /wine. 

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23 comments:

CEO(angie stone) said...

OMG!!!!!! Girl that cake was so darn good.... yum yum

Randy said...

Can you recommend a dessert wine to go with this delectable dessert?

Ashley/ MILK TEETHS said...

I had strawberries and pound cake the other day--I wish I had a bowl right now!!

Needa __ said...

Look fabulously DELICIOUS... I AM so proud of you!

LV said...

Randy,

I highly recommend the Nivole brand of Moscato D'Asti. It is unbelievably delicious and the notes in this wine marry beautifully with the strawberries.

Donitia Worrell said...

This meal looks great. I'm in the process of learning how to cook. I will be checking your blog out daily. I also followed your blog as well.-Dawn

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Zarna said...

YUM! this looks amazing!

Madeline Quaint said...

This cake looks delicious! Wish I could have some for breakfast right now! :)
It's great your blog has more focuses, not just one.

Thank you for your comment and message! :)

Catina said...

This looks absolutely AMAZING!

Bethany Jensen said...

Wow, that looks amazing.

Maycie After Five said...

Ooh this looks divine!!! I would love to try out this recipe.

Unknown said...

WOW..amazing recipe definitely trying it out! thanks for sharing..and yes I'm following now and loving your blog.

http://foodfashionandflow.blogspot.com/

tishiannae said...

Its got to be a crime for me to even look at this while I'm trying to lose a few lbs lol! thanks for ur sweet comment!!

Plz follow back <3
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FashionJazz said...

This looks soo yummy! :)

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www.nnekasaran.blogspot.com said...

Wow this cake looks DELICIOUS! Im no baker but I love cake...I may just have to try this one out! :) Love your blog! And thanks for stopping by mine and for the compliments! :)

Unknown said...

Oh my goodness, I'm keeping this for when I drop the weight I picked up the last two weeks and it'll be my treat - sounds too divine to pass up :-)

Shasie said...

Wow! These look great! I'm going to have to try out these recipes!

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Anonymous said...

This looks delicious. One scoop of vanilla ice cream would set it off nicely.

Thepearsonfamilee said...

looks divine...and yes very tempting. Thank you for all of your kind words on my blog!

Bee said...

looks so tasty! i have to try it at some point! yum!

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