Showing posts with label glazed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label glazed. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Glazed Apple Bundt Cake Week 8 of 12 Weeks of Christmas Treats
Glazed Apple Bundt Cake Week 8 of 12 Weeks of Christmas Treats
My love for bundt cakes will never die. I the idea of the simplicity yet beauty of such a cake makes me happy. In one pan a delicious cake can be created, decorated and then served to friends and family and get the same "ooh" and "ahh" factor that a layered cake would get. As you can see from the above photo my bundt pan has produced many a cake. Cakes such as the, Sweet and Tart Rhubarb Cake, the Peachy Bundt Cake, along with the fabulous Root Beer Float Cake, and moist Blueberry Lemon Cake and of course the Hummingbird Cake have all come from my precious stoneware bundt pan. If you have yet to treat yourself to such a baking pan put it on your holiday wish list! It is the perfect gift for a baker!
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Speaking of holidays I want to share with you today a perfect cake that can be presented at a festive party or given in a pretty basket as a gift as it is delicious beyond words and beautiful to the eye. Sweet apples and sugary chopped nuts are surrounded by a dense cake which are then covered in a brown sugar glaze. The perfection of a bundt cake! Thus I present to you on this 8th week of the 12 Weeks of Holiday Treats created by the lovely Brenda of Magical Meal Planning, a Glazed Apple Bundt Cake.
Glazed Apple Bundt Cake
(recipe discovered on A Recipe a Day)
Cake Ingredients:
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups sour cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
Filling Ingredients:
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup chopped nuts - I used walnuts, pecans are good too!
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
3-4 apples, peeled, cored and sliced
Glaze Ingredients:
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
2 Tbsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
Directions:
1. Grease bundt pan well and set aside. Mix together all filling ingredients in a medium bowl and set aside.
2. Beat together butter and sugar until light in color and consistency - about 4-5 minutes. Add in eggs - one at a time. Mixing between each until the yellow of the egg is completely incorporated to the batter.
3. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Add to butter mixture alternating with the sour cream, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Beat on low speed after each addition until mixture is just blended. Stir in vanilla extract.
4. In prepared bundt pan pour in half of the cake batter. Layer with sliced apples and then all of the filling ingredients. Pour remaining batter over apples and nuts. Bake in a preheated oven of 350 degrees F for 1 hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. My cake took 1 hour and 10 minutes. I covered the cake with tin foil for the last 10 minutes so that the top of the cake did not burn.
5. Cool cake on a rack for 15 minutes before removing from pan. Once cake is completely cooled make the glaze. Melt 2 Tbsp butter just until it starts to brown. Remove from heat and then add in brown sugar, milk and vanilla extract. Stir all together until smooth. Drizzle glaze over your beautiful cake and serve (or give away).
Enjoy!
Happy Glazed Apple Bundt Cake Baking!
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Thursday, February 2, 2017
Glazed Maple Cinnamon Quick Bread
Glazed Maple Cinnamon Quick Bread
I treasure having the opportunity of expressing and sharing some of my passions in life with others. Especially when it comes to baking and my life in the kitchen. Baking is in a sense "food for my soul." It makes me happy. It makes me sane. It makes me whole. It makes ME who I am.
As much as I love the opportunity to bake I also LOVE to share what I bake. It helps my mid-line some what under control and it provides me the delightful experience of giving to others. Today I want to share with all of you a fabulous recipe that I recently discovered from one of my all time favorite food blogs, Buns In My Oven. I have made many, many recipes from Karlys blog. She never disappoints with all of her scrumptious creations. This recipe that I honor today almost put me over the edge with baking happiness as it contains many of my most favorite ingredients. PURE maple syrup for one and then of course the addition of browned butter is completely brilliant! Maple syrup and browned butter in one recipe allows for magical and rich yumminess. The last step in this recipe calls for the addition of COLD butter pieces that have been carefully coated with ground cinnamon into the bread batter allowing for little bursts of precious cinnamon all throughout the bread. Perrrrrfection! Complete perfection. And then of course having buckets of sugary smooth glaze drizzled all over the top of the bread (with plenty of left over for your spreading pleasure on individual slices) completely tops off (literally and deliciously) the amazing bread.
Make. This. Bread. PLEASE!!!!
Glazed Maple Cinnamon Quick Bread
(Recipe from the adorable and scrumptious, Buns In My Oven)
Ingredients:
For the bread:
2 1/4 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup pure maple syrup
1 cup buttermilk
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup browned butter
1/4 cup COLD butter, cubed
1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
For the glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup heavy cream (or half and half which is what I used)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp imitation maple syrup flavoring (my own addition as I wanted the glaze to taste of maple syrup too)
1/4 tsp salt
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x5 loaf pan and set aside.
2. Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, ground cinnamon and salt in a large bowl.
3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the maple syrup, buttermilk, eggs and vanilla extract. Slowly whisk in browned butter.
4. Combine wet ingredients with dry. Mix just until combined.
5. In a small bowl combine COLD butter pieces and 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon. Gently fold in coated butter pieces into the batter.
6. Pour batter into prepared bread loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
7. Make glaze while bread is baking by whisking together all glaze ingredients in a medium bowl. If necessary add in a little bit more sugar or cream to reach desired consistency. Drizzle glaze over completely cooled bread. You will have extra glaze after pouring it over the top of the bread. Eat it by the spoonful or spread it onto bread slices....it should NOT go to waste!
Enjoy!
Happy Glazed Maple Cinnamon Bread Baking!
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