Chai Spiced Pound Cake
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Recipe type: Sweet Treats
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Serves: 2 cakes
 
Ingredients
  • For the cake
  • 2 cups butter, at room temperature
  • 2 ½ cups brown sugar (see note, above)
  • 6 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 4 cups white flour
  • 1 tablespoon ground cardamom
  • 2 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground allspice
  • ¾ teaspoon black pepper
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ cup strong coffee, cooled (I made strong instant coffee with lukewarm water)
  • ½ cup milk
  • 2 to 3 cups pecans, toasted
  • For a coffee glaze (optional)
  • ⅓ cup coffee
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter the bundt pan and dust with flour. (This step
  2. In a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and brown sugar until light and blended.
  3. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, cardamom, cinnamon, allspice, black pepper, and baking powder. Beat half of the flour mixture into the butter mixture.
  4. Add the coffee and beat until smooth. Beat in the remaining flour mixture and then beat in the rest of the liquid. Stir in the pecans by hand.
  5. Pour the batter into the greased and floured pan(s), and bake, checking after an hour (less if you're using multiple, smaller pans like me). If a knife or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, it’s done. Let the cake rest for 10 minutes before removing it from the pan. Cool on a wire rack.
  6. For the glaze, sift the powdered sugar into a bowl. Drizzle in enough coffee, while whisking, to make a glaze the consistency of heavy cream. (If you make the glaze too thick, it’ll chip and crack when you cut the cake.) When the cake cools, set it, still on the rack, over a plate. Pour the glaze over the cake and let it set up for a few minutes. Switch the cake and rack to a second plate, and pour the glaze from the first plate over the cake again. Repeat this a few times until it is glazed to your liking. After the final glaze, when the glaze is still wet, stick pecans on the top for decoration.
Recipe by In Good Taste at http://ingoodtaste.kitchen/pecan-cardamom-pound-cake-or-chaispiced-pound-cake/