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UPSIDE DOWN PECAN POUND CAKE
Ingredients
Pecan Topping
- 100 g (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
- 80 g (1/3 cup) maple syrup or honey
- 100 g (1/2 cup) brown sugar
- 120 g (1 cup) pecans chopped and whole mixed
Pound Cake
- 75 g (1/3 cup) unsalted butter
- 75 g (1/3 cup) vegetable oil
- 130 g (1/3+1/4 cup) caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla paste or vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- 3 eggs room temperature
- 200 g (1+2/3 cups) all purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 190 g (3/4 cup) buttermilk or the same amount of milk mixed with 1/2 tbsp vinegar, let it set for 10 minutes before use it
Instructions
Pecan Topping
- In a small saucepan, place butter, maple syrup, sugar and cook over low-medium heat until sugar completely dissolves.
- Add pecans, mix and pour into a 2lb-1kg (11,5x22,5cm-4,5x9inch) loaf pan lined with parchment paper (don't forget to line it, it's important since this is an upsidedown cake).
Pound Cake
- In a large bowl, mix together butter, oil, sugar, salt and vanilla until creamy, smooth and well combined.
- Incorporate egg one at a time and mix just until combined.
- Sift and mix together flour, baking powder and baking soda.
- Alternate adding flour mix and buttermilk: don't overmix if you want to get a soft cake!
- Pour the batter on top of the topping mix into the lined loaf pan.
- Bake in preheated no fan oven (upper+lower heat) at 170°C-340°F for about 55 minutes (or until a toothpick comes out clean).
- Cool down.
- Invert onto the serving plate, unmold and remove the parchment paper.
- You can serve as it is or adding some extra maple syrup and ice cream.
Video
Notes
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Tips:
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I’ve used Pecans for this delicious Pound Cake, but you can substitute Pecans with your favourite nuts like walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts… they all match perfectly with the soft Vanilla Pound Cake!
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Grease well and line your pan with parchment paper so you can easily unmold the pound cake upside down!
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Do not overmix the batter, mostly when you add flour: fold it gently to avoid forming elastic gluten strands – resulting in a more dense, chewy cake texture.
Sift flour and don’t worry if there are some very small lumps in the batter.