Orange Pound Cake with Orange Caramel Sauce
"This is a very special dessert. Orange afficianados will go crazy over it!"
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 large orange
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄4 cup butter, softened (no substitutions)
- 1 large egg
- 2 large egg whites
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Orange/Caramel Sauce
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
directions
- Preheat oven to 350*F degrees.
- Lightly coat a 9x5-inch loaf pan with vegetable cooking spray.
- Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda in medium bowl; set aside.
- With vegetable peeler remove peel from orange; coarsely chop.
- Cut orange in half and squeeze 1/2 cup juice.
- Process sugar and peel in food processor, pulsing until peel is finely chopped.
- Combine buttermilk, 1/4 cup orange juice and vanilla in a small glass measuring cup (Reserve remaining juice for caramel sauce).
- Beat butter and orange-sugar mixture in large mixer bowl on medium-high speed until combined.
- Beat in egg and egg whites, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- At low speed, add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
- Spoon batter into prepared pan.
- Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool on wire rack 15 minutes; invert and remove pan.
- Make Orange-Caramel Sauce: Meanwhile, combine water and sugar in small saucepan; stir with wooden spoon until sugar is moistened.
- Bring to simmer over medium-low heat; cover and simmer 2 to 3 minutes until sugar dissolves.
- Uncover and cook until sugar turns amber, 5 to 6 minutes.
- Remove from heat and slowly stir in reserved orange juice (mixture will bubble vigorously).
- Return to heat and cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves.
- Cool sauce and serve with cake.
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Reviews
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Today is my birthday and I had my wife cook this cake. It is very good. I like anything with orange in it. Thanks for such an easy recipe. For sure 5 stars. -
You have done it again Miriam. I substituted the left over orange juice for the water in the glaze. It was a really really good cake and I thank you for the recipe. -
My daughter's preschool teacher loves pound cake, so for her birthday I baked this. It just came out of the oven, I doubled it to fit in a bundt pan and baked for 45 minutes. It is beautiful and very tasty! I was worried about the caramel sauce as it formed rock candy when I added the juice but I was patient and kept cooking it and after 5 minutes or so the crystals disolved and viola, carmel sauce!! Thanks for the recipe it is a keeper for sure!!! -
This cake was very tasty and sublimely orange-y. I found the texture to be a little more along the lines of sponge cake, however, rather than a pound cake (which I wasn't really surprised at given the smaller quanity of butter). I thought the directions and ingredient list were a little confusing- for example, I only got 1/4 cup from 1 orange, not 1/2 cup, but since neither the cake ingredient list nor the caramel sauce list specified, it was kind of hard. I would rather see a list that says 1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice for the cake, 1/4 cup freshly squeezed juice for the sauce (which I found duelly confusing because the quanity isn't mentioned but once in step 7, indirectly, for the sauce) and the peel of one orange for the cake. In any case, I have to admit that I tried to make the caramel sauce, but overcooked it and ended up with a burnt taste so I trashed it. The cake was extremely moist and flavorful without still, but I think without, perhaps partially subconsciously because its cooked in a loaf pan, it leans a little more towards bread than cake. The orange flavor was so pronouned that it almost tasted artificial (but in a good way!). I will be trying this again, but perhaps with some tinkering. -
I loved the flavour of this but had an issue with the orange peel/sugar mix. Because of the moisture in the peel it kept clumping the sugar. No matter how long I blended it I still had large chunks of peel.
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You have done it again Miriam. I substituted the left over orange juice for the water in the glaze. It was a really really good cake and I thank you for the recipe.
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