Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Brown Sugar Pound Cake

Recipe and Photo Courtesy of Martha Stewart

Makes 29 cupcakes or 1 standard-size cake

INGREDIENTS
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 1/4 cups packed light-brown sugar
4 large eggs, room temperature
3/4 cup buttermilk
Brown-Butter Glaze

DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners or grease cake pans. Whisk dry ingredients in a large bowl. Cream butter and sugar with a mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.

Reduce speed to low. Add dry ingredients to butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the buttermilk, and ending with dry ingredients. Scrape sides of bowl.

Fill each cup 3/4 full, and bake for 25 minutes. Or, alteratively, fill cake pan(s) and bake cake as usual (using the toothpick method to test for doneness).

Set rack with cupcakes (or cake) over a parchment-lined baking sheet. Spoon glaze over top, and let stand until set. Serve immediately.

1 comments:

Pam said...

This sounds delicious and I've never heard of it before. They must be very moist and tasty! Yum! Thanks!