Pound Cake With Sticky Coffee Sauce

Makes: 1 mini loaf (size as shown)

A mini, single-serve adaption of the Plush Sour Cream Pound Cake by the amazing Ruth Tam! Although mine didn’t quite turn out as plush as hers, I’d say I quite liked my slightly dense mini-bake with a sticky coffee glaze messily drizzled all over. Hope you do too :)

Ingredients

GROUP A: CAKE

• 6 1/2 tbsp sour cream at room temperature

• 1 tbsp whole milk at room temperature

• 1 large egg at room temperature

• 1 large egg yolk at room temperature

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 1/2 tsp kahlua

• 4 tbsp butter at room temperature

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1/4 tsp baking powder

• 7 tbsp granulated sugar

• 1/2 tbsp neutral oil

• 1/2 cup + 2 1/2 tbsp AP flour, sifted

GROUP B: STICKY COFFEE GLAZE

• 1 tsp confectioner’s sugar

• 1 tsp instant coffee

• 1 tsp butter, melted

• 1 1/2 tsp milk

Method

• Preheat oven to 350 F and grease and dust a loaf pan (either a mini loaf pan, or a smaller square sized one).

• In a medium bowl. mix together the sour cream and milk. In another bowl, mix the egg, egg yolk, vanilla extract, and kahlua together.

• In a large bowl, beat the butter, salt, and baking powder on medium speed till the butter is smooth. Slowly add the sugar in 3 - 4 increments and keep beating on medium speed till the mixture is light (pale) and fluffy. Add the oil and mix well till combined.

• Add the egg mixture to the butter in slow, stream-like increments and keep mixing well after each increment to make sure the batter is well combined.

• Alternate between adding the flour and sour cream mixture to the batter, each one in 3 - 4 increments. Fold the batter well to ensure that it is well combined and no flour streaks remain.

• Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin and tap the loaf tin down to ensure no air pockets are caught in the batter. Bake for 50 - 55 minutes, till the top is browned and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. Transfer from the loaf pan to a wire rack and let it cool to room temperature.

• Mix all Group B ingredients to make the coffee glaze. Slice the cake and drizzle the sticky sauce all over the slices!