My friend Jessi posted about taking a regular fan and making it fabulous by turning it into a rainbow fan. Since it is also her birthday this weekend, I felt inspired to make her a rainbow pound cake… the flavor was left up to her. She chose amaretto.
Somehow though my mind did some weird convoluted twisting motion that took me from making her a plain old pound cake to making one with unicorn tears, that a dragon would drag back to its treasure cave and that a leprechaun would bless.
So here’s to a magically delicious (hopefully) and color intense pound cake! It’s “amarettastic”! (Love how Jessi just coined a new word.
My Little Poundcake: Amaretto is Magic
Preheat oven to 350*. (Yes, I know. Not my typical 325*, but somehow this happened and worked!. lol)
Ingredients:
4 sticks (1 pound) unsalted butter, softened
3 cups sugar
6 eggs
1/2 tablespoon almond extract
4 cups of flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup amaretto
3/4 cup milk
Cream together the butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time. Beat well after each addition. Add the almond extract. Sift the baking powder together with the flour. Add the flour, milk and amaretto (add flour in thirds and 1/2 of the milk and amaretto in between the flour additions)
Pour batter into a large bundt pan that has been well-greased and floured. Bake for 75 minutes. Test for doneness.
After you have removed the pound cake from the oven and before you remove it from the pan, pierce the cake with a toothpick multiple times and the pour 3/4 cup of amaretto over the cake. Let the cake cool for 15 minutes before inverting on a cake plate.
Amaretto Glaze (as if there isn’t enough amaretto in this cake already!)
2 TBS melted butter
3-6 TBS amaretto
1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
Combine ingredients and drizzle over the cooled cake.
The Extra Mile….
For Jessi, I am willing to go that extra mile. She was there for me when I had tons of questions. She listened. She pointed me towards different reading materials (knowing that I love to read). She’s just awesome. She’s also going to make a wonderful clinical psychologist for the LGBTQ community (and those like me who are a parent of and a friend of members of that community) Plus sometimes Jessi bakes.
Anyway… to go the extra mile and turn a bundt cake into a rainbow cake, divide the batter into 7 bowls. Put enough food coloring to get the shade you want… red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Obviously each bowl gets a different color. Pour the batter in ROYGBIV order into the bundt pan and then bake your cake. Something magical happens as the cake bakes, so when you slice into the finished product, VOILA! you have a rainbow.