Cardamom Coffee Pound Cake
Recipe: #12854
June 26, 2014
Categories: Breads, Desserts, Cakes, Oven Bake Vegetarian, Quick Breads, Flour, Spices, more
"Recipe source: local newspaper"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (123 g)
- Calories 360.2
- Total Fat - 9.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.9 g
- Cholesterol - 64 mg
- Sodium - 357.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 63.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.6 g
- Sugars - 48.4 g
- Protein - 5.5 g
- Calcium - 133.5 mg
- Iron - 0.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Step 2
Spray a loaf pan (8 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch) with Pam or grease pan
Step 3
In a bowl combine dry ingredients (flour - cardamom).
Step 4
In a second bowl combine wet ingredients (yogurt, 1 cup sugar - oil) and whisk. Stir wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
Step 5
Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 50-55 minutes or until cake tests done with a toothpick inserted in center (toothpick comes clean when inserted in center of cake). Let cool in pan for 10 minutes and then finish cooling on a wire rack.
Step 6
In a saucepan over medium low heat heat the coffee with the remaining 1/4 cup sugar, heating until sugar dissolves.
Step 7
While cake is still warm, poke holes in top of cake and pour coffee mixture over top. Let it soak in and let cake finish cooling.
Step 8
If desired, prepare icing by combining remaining 2 tablespoons of coffee and a pinch of cardamom and the powdered sugar, stirring until smooth; adding more sugar if necessary. Drizzle icing over top of cooled cake.
Tips
No special items needed.