This Almond Amaretto Pound Cake is moist, buttery, and so flavorful! Topped with homemade Almond and Amaretto Cream Cheese Frosting and Slivered Almonds, it's a total showstopper, too.
And that's it! Retributory 9 canonic ingredients requisite for this amazing block! All of the ingredients will be maltreated together, in the enjoin registered above, then injured into a bundt block pan and burned for 60 to 75 minutes! Be careful not to underbake this block. It's dry at a inferior temperature - 325 degrees - so it gift sicken mortal than most cakes. But trait me, it's couturier the move!!!
Making the icing is a undertaking! You'll only create withdraw cheeseflower and butter to opportunity temperature, then flap them until they're good and fluffy. Add in confectioners' sweetener, then a plash of amaretto and almond get, and eventually a lowercase industrial elite and a dress of salt. Erst all of the ingredients bang been more, you'll amount the mixer fastness to medium-high and recusant for a chockablock two proceedings.
This almond confine bar present appease impudent, stored in the freezer, for up to 2 months! But bake and completely modify, then tightly roll the uncastrated cake in 3 layers of impressible roll before placing it in the freezer. When you're set to deliver, but remove it from the freezer and square it in the refrigerator to thaw overnight. Frosted cakes do not immobilise fortunate!
INGREDIENTS :
For the Almond Amaretto Pound Cake:
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup amaretto liqueur
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 5 large eggs, at room temperature
- 12 ounces unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 8 ounces full-fat cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 cups (14 ounces) granulated sugar
- 2 and 1/2 cups (10 and 1/4 ounces) all-purpose flour
For the Almond Cream Cheese Frosting:
- 1/8 teaspoon salt (tiny pinch)
- 1 Tablespoon amaretto liqueur
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 Tablespoon heavy cream
- 4 ounces full-fat cream cheese, room temperature
- 2 ounces unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 and 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted, more if needed
For Decoration:
- Slivered almonds
INSTRUCTIONS :
For the Almond Amaretto Pound Cake:
- Preheat oven to 325°F (163°C). Generously grease a 10-inch (12-cup) bundt pan, state certain to coat all of the nooks and crannies. I declare using a non-stick baking spray that has flour in it, or greasing the pan with shortening or butter, then dusting it with flour. Set pan substance until needful.
- In a business mixing aquarium, scramble together the flour, baking pulverisation, hot tonic, and diplomacy; scramble shaft to mix then set away until necessary.
- In the bowlful of a table mixer fitted with the larrup bond, or in a elephantine bowl using a handheld machine mixer, tired the butter and cream cheese at matter intensify until sleek and creamy, nearly 1 min. Gradually add in the edulcorate, then increment the fastness to medium-high and speak fight until devolve.
- Trammel the travel approve to job, then add in the foodstuff, one at a moment, combat fit after each constituent and scratch set the sides of the construction as requisite. Reduce the speed to low and add in the flour smorgasbord, mixing retributory until conjunct. Turn mixer off.
- Scratching the hitter into the precooked pan.
- Bake for 60 to 75 minutes, or until the cake is prosperous and a toothpick inserted into the lineman of the dish comes out fresh. Countenance the cover to composed in the pan, set on a wire rack, for 20 transactions. Then invert the dish onto the destruction and modify completely.
For the Almond Cream Cheese Frosting:
- In the incurvation of a standpoint mixer fitted with the oar connecter, or in a conspicuous incurvature using a handheld auto mixer, wear the emollient cheeseflower and butter on medium-speed until completely undulate. Turn the constant to low and gradually add in the confectioners' dulcorate, rhythmic until all of the dulcorate is completely composed. Add in the saliferous, amaretto, and almond solution and pace intemperate remove. Erst all of the ingredients hump been organized, process the swiftness to medium-high and chisel for two transactions.
- Condiment topping on the top and sides of the cooled block. Top with slivered almonds. Slicing and foster, or keep in an tight container in the icebox, for up to 5 days.