Anise Pound Cake Recipes

SWEET ANISE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• With a mixer, beat 3/4 cup butter and sugar until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating to blend well with each addition. Beat in lemon peel and anise extract.
• Mix 1 1/4 cups flour with baking powder and salt. Add the flour mixture to batter, mixing slowly to incorporate dry ingredients, then beat at medium speed until well blended.
• Scrape batter into a buttered and flour-dusted 4 1/2- by 8-inch loaf pan. Spread level.
• Bake in a 325° oven until cake is golden and just begins to pull from pan sides, about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack about 15 minutes. Invert cake onto a plate and serve warm or cool, cut into thin slices.

ANISE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350-degrees F.
• Grease and flour 10-inch tube or bundt pan.
• (I use the wrappers from the butter to grease pan) In a small bowl sift together flour and salt and then set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, cream butter with sugar, vanilla and anise seed.
• Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
• Add dry ingredients alternately with sour cream to mixture and beat well.
• Pour into prepared pan.
• Bake for 1 hour or until cake is golden and springs back when touched with fork.