Recipe for cooking apple cider pound cake

Desserts to Go with Coffee and Tea :: Buttery Pound Cakes

Apple Cider Pound Cake

This is a lrg. cake which can be divided into 3 bread loaf pans for gift giving.

3 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. allspice
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. cloves
1 c. butter
1/2 c. shortening
3 c. sugar
6 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring
1 c. apple cider

Sift together flour, salt, baking powder and spices; set aside. Cream butter, shortening and sugar. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each. Add vanilla extract or flavoring. Add dry ingredients alternately with cider to creamed mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Pour batter into greased and floured 10-in. tube pan. Bake at 325 degrees F for 1 1/2 hours. Cool 15 mins.. Remove from pan and finish cooling on wire rack.

Caramel Glaze
1/2 c. sugar
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 c. buttermilk
1/2 tsp. light corn syrup
1/4 tsp. vanilla extract or flavoring

Bring ingredients to rolling boil. Boil 10 mins., stirring occasionally. Pour over slightly warm cake, allowing glaze to drip down sides of cake.