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Apple Cider Poke Pound Cake
Apple Cider Poke Pound Cake is perfectly sweet apple-infused pound cake that is light, tender and moist.
Yield: 12 servings
Prep: 20 minsCook: 1 hour 15 minsTotal: 1 hour 35 minutes
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 2 quarts of apple cider (1/2 gallon)
- 3 1/4 cups cake flour, plus flour to dust pan
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks sweet cream butter softened, plus butter to grease pan
- 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 7 large room temperature eggs (must not be cold)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 Gala apple or other baking apple
- 1 packet unflavored gelatin
Glaze
- 1 1/2 cups confectioner’s sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3-4 tablespoons apple cider reserved from earlier
Instructions
- Before you begin, you will need a Bundt pan 10 inches across and 4 ½ inches deep (12 cups in volume). Liberally butter and flour this pan and set aside.
- Also, the cake starts in a cold oven, so do not preheat the oven.
- The cider needs to reduce during most of the baking time. Remove ¼ cup from the 2 quarts and set that aside for use later in the glaze.
- Take the remaining cider and place in a 3-4 quart sauce pan and bring to a boil. As it begins to boil, foam will rise to the top. Scoop that off and discard and continue to boil until the cider has reduced to one cup.
- Take two bowls and sift the flour and salt back and forth between the two bowls three times. Set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar for five minutes until pale in color.
- With mixer running, add one egg at a time beating completely before adding the next. Scrape the bowl and beat again.
- Add the vanilla and beat again.
- With mixer running, beat in half the flour until incorporated, then all of the cream, again mixing until incorporated then the remaining flour. Beat this on medium for five minutes.
- At this point, peel and core the apple and using the large holes on a box grater, grate the apple then add to the batter. Beat just to incorporate.
- Pour the batter into the pan and tap the pan on the counter to spread the batter evenly.
- Place in the cold oven and turn to 350 degrees F. Start timing now for one hour.
- Start timing now for one hour.
- After the hour, insert a tooth pick and if it comes out clean, remove from the oven. If not then bake 15 more minutes or until a tooth pick comes out clean.
- Let the cake sit in the pan on a rack to cool for 15 minutes.
- While the cake is baking, continue to reduce the cider to one cup.
- In a small bowl, place a few tablespoons of cold water and stir in the gelatin packet. Then stir in the hot cider and stir to dissolve.
- After the cake sits for 15 minutes, using a skewer or fork, poke about a hundred holes in the top and slowly pour in half the reduced cider mixture. Pour slowly so it can absorb into the cake as you pour.
- Place a plate over the cake and invert. The cake should slide right out. If any liquid sits on the bottom of the plate, pour that back into the cup with reduced cider.
- Poke the same amount of holes into this side and slowly pour in the second half of the reduced cider.
- Place in the refrigerator to set for about 30 minutes.
- While the cake is setting, in a small bowl, place confectioner’s sugar and vanilla. Whip in a tablespoon of the reserved cider at a time to make a thick creamy glaze. Out of the quarter cup I reserved, I used three tablespoons of it.
- Remove the cake from the refrigerator and drizzle the glaze over the top and serve immediately.
- You do not need to refrigerate the leftovers. Seal tight and eat within a few days.
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