Brown Sugar Pound Cake for National Bundt Day!!!

It’s National Bundt Day!! Mary the Food Librarian has been baking bundts every day since October 17^th in anticipation for today!! It has inspired me to make my very first bundt cake! It might have also been because I was promised a button exclaiming “I Like Big Bundts”?Check out Mary@The Food Librarian to find out more and to see her great bundts!!** 

taken from All Cakes Considered by Melissa Gray* 

2 sticks (1 cup or 228g) of unsalted butter at room temp

½ cup shortening

16oz (2 ¼ cups) of light or dark brown sugar

½ cup sugar

5 large eggs

3 cups all-purpose flour aka plain flour

½ tsp baking powder

1 cup milk

2 tbsp vanilla extract

1 cup chopped pecans

The author notes that you should take out your butter and eggs at least 1 hour before you start making your cake.

Pre-heat the oven to 350*F or 180*C or gas mark 4

Line your 10 inch tube pan or cake pan or bundt pan like I did! I didn’t line my bundt pan I just sprayed and floured it!

1. Cream your butter and shortening on medium speed
2. Combine your sugars
3. Then add the sugars half a cup at a time, beating 1-2 minutes in between cups
4. Add the eggs one at a time and same as before beat 1-2 mins in between
5. Dry whisk your flour and baking powder together (easier then sifting)
6. Then alternate the flour and milk (Melissa notes add 1 cup of dry ingredients for every 1/3 cup wet) on a low speed. All of us bakers know that you don’t want to add flour then mix on med/high because flour will be everywhere!!
7. Once it’s all added speed up your mixing for about a minute.
8. Add the vanilla.
9. Fold in the pecans.
10. Bake for 70 minutes. I only needed 60 minutes but I used a bundt pan not a tube pan so might be why there is a difference.
11. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes and carefully flip out! 

I sprinkled mine with icing sugar! It is very tasty!!  Oh and do not skip out on the pecans... in fact I’d add more!! :0)

*That’s right I told you I had an addiction in an earlier post and like most addicts I try to hide it. So, I hid this book on my shelf hoping no one would notice. ;0)

**Pun intended!!

Note: With day light fading my pictures have to resort to indoor lighting. Boo. I apologize for the just okay pictures!!

Resource: Bundt's and Nordic Ware and Home Sense and Amazon UK and Amazon USA