I’m sitting here after having a couple pieces of pound cake wondering if this success or mess challenge is worth the extra lbs. All it’s proven is that it doesn’t matter if it’s chocolate or fruit I love dessert.
This week was the third attempt at getting my family on board with the ‘fruit as dessert’ thing. We enjoyed it, but I feel weighed down and I know pound cake is goo all on its own. Instead in my attempt to take fruit over the top for dessert, I, well, took it over the top.
Thinking about a trifle or using some of the season’s freshest berries with a pound, I chose the latter. Although I ended up making a bit of both and made Vanilla Pound Cake with Mixed Berries and Custard. Or something like that. I should have known when I didn’t know what to call it (because there was so much going on); I might need to rethink things. But, I kept going full steam ahead.
So, you can take a look at this and decide for yourself what to keep and what to exclude.
Homemade pound cake topped with a couple spoons of vanilla pudding, topped with mixed berries, topped with whipped cream. Uh, yum. And way too much!
Here’s a picture, the info and tips. Now, you’ll have to excuse me while I go work it off my thighs.
Vanilla Pound Cake with Mixed Berries and Custard
Ingredients:
· 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
· 2 1/2 cups sugar
· 6 large eggs
· 2 1/2 cups flour
· 1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
· 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
· 1/2 teaspoon salt
· 1 cup heavy cream
· 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Directions:
Leave the oven off. Grease and flour a 10-inch Bundt cake pan. Cream the butter and sugar together in the mixer. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add flour mixture and cream to butter-sugar mixture, alternating between the two, beginning and ending with flour. Add vanilla and stir. Pour into the cake pan and bake at 325ยบ for about 1 hour and 25 minutes, keeping the oven closed the whole time. No peeking J Take the cake out and let it cool in the pan for 20 minutes. Turn it out onto a plate.
Custard: Just mix a small box of vanilla pudding with 2 cups milk and let is set up for about 10 minutes.
Mixed Berries: Rinse and cut up 1 ½ cups strawberries and put in a medium sized bowl. Add 1 cup of raspberries and 1/2 cup of blueberries (optional) or use your favorite berries. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar. Cover and let sit in the fridge for at least an hour.
Whipped Cream: Well, just go buy some and make it easy on yourself.
Cut a piece of cake. Top it with some custard (pudding), then add a helping of fresh berries, add a dollop or three of whipped cream and enjoy!
