Pound Cake With Sticky Coffee Sauce
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!