Vanilla Pound Cake with Rum Sauce

 

Hello to my friends that kindly come to my blog :) it makes me so very happy.

 I want to share this super easy recipe with you, its all about  a vanilla pound cake, with a delicious sauce which you have to add as soon as it comes out of the oven, here´s the recipe:

 

Cake:

3 eggs

1 stick of butter (room temperature)

1 can condensed milk

1 cup of flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

1 Tbsp. vanilla

 

Sauce:

1 stick of butter

1 cup of sugar

1 can evaporated milk

3 Tbsp. rum

 

How to:

Pre-heat the oven 350°F

Sauce:

Start by the sauce so you can have it ready.

in a saucepan heat the milk with the butter, as soon as it melts add the sugar and mix till sugar melts too, finally add the rum and turn of the heat.

Cake:

Start by softening the butter with a mixer

then add sugar, eggs, condensed milk and the rest of the ingredients.

Bake for 30 min aprox. or just when a toothpick comes out clean

 

just as you take it out of the oven pour the warm sauce all over the cake

Let it stand for a few hours, refrigerate,  you can add some pon-pons with whipped cream as decoration, it will look and taste absolutely delicious I promise!!!!

 

 

Metric Conversion Charts

 

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HUGS!

 

 

 

 

Turrón Layer Cake

 

As you already know, I love Christmas baking, and with festivities always come spanish sweet specialties, in this case Turrón de Jijona, its a confection made with almonds and honey.  Well I still had some left over packages and decided to make a pound cake, I´ve done it before but this time it will include a Turrón butter icing which turned out great!

So here´s the recipe:

 

Ingredients for the cake:

1 can condensed milk

1/2 cup light brown sugar

160 grs. of "Turrón de Jijona"

1 cup of butter

3 eggs

2 cups of flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

pinch of salt

1/2 cup of milk

 

Ingredients for the Icing:

90. grs butter

2 cups powder sugar

160 grs. turrón de Jijona

1/4 cup of evaporated milk

 

How to:

Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter and flour two round pans.

In a medium bowl sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and set aside.

 In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, add condensed milk and add eggs one at a time, beating until well combined.

Add the crumbled turrón de Jijona.

Add the reserved flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with the milk, beat until combined, divide the batter between the prepared pans.

Bake for about 1/2 hour and check every ten minutes till toothpick comes out clean.

Turn out cakes onto the rack to cool completery, cut them by half and wait till they are cooled down.

 

How to prepare the Icing:

just Beat and cream the butter, add the powder sugar, the evaporated milk and the turrón.

 

Now you can finish the cake by filling the layers with it.

 

Decoration

I just cut a heart with paper and sifted some powder sugar, you can really do what you like, this is a very rich cake and a simple decoration turns out great

 

 

i HOPE YOU LIKE IT!!!!

 

 

 

EASY RED VELVET CUPCAKES

 

I have always felt a curiosity in knowing why people loved the red velvet cake, cupcakes or whatever red confection, the answear is easy, because its delicious.

Its somewhat strange to eat a red chocolate cake but in fact its part of the mistery around it :).

I have several recipes for red velvet cake, cupcakes etc, but this time I will show you the real easy one, which I´m sharing with you today.

 

INGREDIENTS:

For the cake

1 red velvet cake box

1/2 cup oil

1 1/4 cup of milk

3 Tbsp. Cocoa Powder

3 eggs

150 grs. plain yogurt

 

FROSTING:

95 grs. cream cheese (softened)

90 grs. butter (softened)

1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar

1/4 cup milk

 

HOW-TO

Cake

Mix all the ingredients and pour into a cake pan,

bake for 30 min,300°F.

let it cool.

 

Frosting

Mix all ingredients with an electric mixer

Cover the cake with with it and enjoy!!!!