Bourbon Pecan Pound Cake Recipes

BOURBON PECAN CAKE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. Combine the bourbon, milk and vanilla in a separate bowl (it may get clumpy looking--that's ok) and set aside.
• In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream the butter and coconut oil until fluffy, about 1 minute. Add 1 3/4 cups of the granulated sugar and beat until fluffy, about 1 more minute. Add the egg yolks one at a time, mixing well between additions. Add the dry ingredients in four batches, alternating with the wet mixture, starting and ending with the dry. Stir in the pecans.
• In a stand mixer with a whisk attachment and a clean bowl, whip the egg whites with the cream of tartar on medium until soft peaks form. Sprinkle in the remaining 1/4 cup granulated sugar and whip to stiff peaks, about 5 minutes total. Fold the egg whites into the batter in thirds.
• Pour into a bundt pan and bake until a cake tester comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes. Let cool before turning the cake out of the pan.
• For the glaze: In a medium bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar, bourbon and 2 tablespoons water. Once the cake is cool, top it with the glaze and sprinkle with the chopped pecans.

BOURBON PECAN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Combine butter and sugar in bowl of electric mixer and blend until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating constantly.
• Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg.
• Blend sour cream and bourbon.
• Alternately add flour and sour cream mixture to batter.
• Add pecans.
• Grease bottom and sides of tube or bunt pan.
• Pour in batter and bake at 325 degrees for about one hour and 30 minutes.
• Test cake frequently after first hour and 15 minutes for doneness.
• Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes before turning out on wire rack.
• To prepare glaze, combine sugar and bourbon.
• Stir while gradually adding water.
• Add only enough water to make a pourable glaze without allowing mixture to become too thin.
• Pour glaze over top of warm cake and let dribble down sides.

CREAM CHEESE BOURBON PECAN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F
• Grease and flour a 12 cup tube or bundt pan.
• Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until the yellow yolk disappears.
• Sift together flour and salt; add to butter mixture alternately with bourbon, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Beat batter at low speed just until blended after each addition.
• Stir in vanilla and pecans.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured 12-cup tube pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 30 minutes to 1 hour and 35 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes.
• Remove from pan; cool completely on wire rack.

BOURBON-PECAN POUND CAKE

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, cream shortening; gradually add in sugar, beating well using an electric mixer on medium speed.
• Add in eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg; set aside.
• In another bowl, combine sour cream and bourbon; add to creamed mixture alternately with flour mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
• Mix just until blended after each addition.
• Fold in pecans.
• Pour batter into a greased/floured 10-inch tube pan.
• Bake in a 325° oven for 1 hour and 10 to 15 minutes or until pick comes out clean.
• Cool cake in pan on a wire rack for 10-15 minutes.
• Remove cake from pan and cool completely on a wire rack.
• In a bowl, combine all the glaze ingredients; stir well.
• Drizzle glaze over cooled cake.

BOURBON PECAN POUND CAKE II

Steps:

• Butter and flour a 12-cup tube pan or Bundt pan.
• Position oven rack in the lower third of the oven; preheat to 325°.
• Add flour, sugars, baking powder, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, then add in the butter.
• Beat on the lowest speed for about 2 minutes, until the ingredients are well combined.
• Combine the remaining batter ingredients, except the pecans in a bowl; mix well.
• Increase mixer speed to medium and add 1/3 of the liquid ingredients; mix for 2 minutes, then stop and scrape down the bowl and beater.
• Add another third of the liquid, beat for 2 minutes, then scrape again.
• Finally, add the remaining liquid and beat and scrape as before.
• Use a large rubber spatula to give the batter a final stir; fold in the floured pecans, thend scrape the batter into the prepared pan; smooth the top.
• Bake for 65-75 minutes, or until a pick comes out clean.
• Cool cake in the pan on a rack for 10 minutes, then invert onto the rack to finish cooling.
• Just before serving, dust the cake generously with powdered sugar.
• *Almond Rum Pound Cake-substitute chopped blanched whole almonds for the pecans and white rum for the bourbon; add 1 teaspoon almond extract along with the vanilla extract.
• *Hazelnut Dark Rum Pound Cake-substitute coarsely ground unblanched hazelnuts for the pecans and dark rum for the bourbon.