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Margarita Pound Cake – My Cake Faculty


This extremely moist and flavorful Margarita Pound Cake is the right dessert for entertaining.

Margarita Pound Cake, sliced, on a cake plate.

It’s buttery and decadent with scrumptious taste from the margarita combine within the cake batter. After baking, we brushed the highest and sides of the nice and cozy cake with a tequila lime glaze.

Elements for Margarita Pound Cake

This is a fast have a look at our star substances for right now’s cake. You’ll find the full, printable recipe on the backside of this put up.

  • Butter- We use unsalted since we add our salt individually
  • Sugar
  • Eggs
  • Cake Flour-Makes for a young crumb
  • Baking Powder and Salt
  • Frozen (thawed) Margarita Combine (We used Bacardi)
  • Lemon Extract -optional, however provides an additional enhance of taste
  • Lime and Lemon Zest (You’ll be able to substitute orange zest for the lemon if you would like)
  • Tequila Lime Glaze (tequila, lime juice, water, and butter)
  • Sugar Glaze/Drizzle for adornment

How one can Make a Margarita Pound Cake

You’ll find the full, printable cake recipe on the backside of this put up. Here’s a fast have a look at our steps!

  • Grease and flour a tube pan. (Ours was a ten inch pan with baking capability of 12 cups)
  • Preheat the oven to 325℉.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to mix, put aside for later.
  • Utilizing an electrical mixer (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer), cream the butter on medium velocity till easy. Subsequent, progressively add the sugar and blend on medium velocity till gentle and fluffy for 3 to five minutes.
Mixing butter and sugar.Mixing butter and sugar.
  • Add the eggs one by one, mixing after every till the yolk is mixed.
  • In a measuring cup or bowl, mix the thawed margarita combine with the milk, lemon zest, lime zest, lemon extract, and vanilla extract.
Wet Ingredients for the Margarita Pound Cake.Wet Ingredients for the Margarita Pound Cake.
  • With the mixer on low velocity, add the flour combination alternately with the margarita combination to the butter/sugar/egg combination within the mixing bowl. Start and finish with the dry substances. We do three additions of dry, alternating with two additions of moist.
  • Scoop batter into ready bundt pan.
  • Bake at 325 levels F for one hour and 5-10 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clear. *Baking instances might differ and so peek in as the top time approaches and regulate time as wanted. *Begin making the tequila lime glaze over the past ten minutes or so of baking the cake.
  • Take away the freshly baked cake from the oven and brush solely the highest for now (we used a silicone pastry brush) with a light-weight coating of the tequila lime glaze. Enable cake to chill for about quarter-hour earlier than turning it out onto a cake plate.
Glazing the margarita pound cake while still in the pan.Glazing the margarita pound cake while still in the pan.

After turning out the cake onto the cake plate, proceed brushing all sides with a light-weight coating of the Tequila Lime Glaze. The cake continues to be heat at this level and the glaze soaks in simply. *I did not use the entire glaze.

This imparts a light-weight tequila flavor- it isn’t in any respect overpowering.

Glazing the Margarita Pound Cake.Glazing the Margarita Pound Cake.

Sugar Glaze

After brushing the cake with tequila lime glaze and permitting it to soak up, we drizzled over the cake with a easy sugar glaze. It’s a mixture of confectioners sugar, a little bit of tequila and/or lime juice, and a pinch of salt.

You’ll be able to spoon the glaze over the cooled cake, or you may spoon it right into a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away for much more management.

If you would like, prime with lemon and lime zest. Take pleasure in!

Margarita Pound Cake on a cake plate.Margarita Pound Cake on a cake plate.

Cannot discover Margarita Combine?

Our native grocery shops carry frozen Bacardi Margarita Combine year-round. Nonetheless, if you cannot discover it or want to go one other route, attempt our scrumptious Key Lime Pound Cake recipe and brush it with the tequila lime glaze.

Extra Social gathering Desserts

We have made a lot of celebration truffles or “boozy truffles” over time, together with Margarita Cupcakes with Tequila Lime Buttercream, Pina Colada Cake, and Limoncello Bundt Cake. Listed below are just some of our favorites!

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Tequlia Lime Glaze (for brushing onto heat cake)

  • Grease and flour a tube pan. (Ours was a ten inch pan with baking capability of 12 cups)

  • Preheat the oven to 325℉.

  • In a separate bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder, and salt to mix, put aside for later.

  • Utilizing an electrical mixer (paddle attachment if utilizing a stand mixer), cream the butter on medium velocity till easy. Subsequent, progressively add the sugar and blend on medium velocity till gentle and fluffy for 3 to five minutes.

  • Add the eggs one by one, mixing after every till the yolk is mixed.

  • In a measuring cup or bowl, mix the thawed margarita combine with the milk, lemon zest, lime zest, lemon extract, and vanilla extract.

  • With the mixer on low velocity, add the flour combination alternately with the margarita combination to the butter/sugar/egg combination within the mixing bowl. Start and finish with the dry substances. We do three additions of dry, alternating with two additions of moist.

  • Scoop batter into ready bundt pan.

  • Bake at 325 levels for 1 hour and 5-10 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clear. *Baking instances might differ and so peek in as the top time approaches and regulate time as wanted. *Begin making the tequila lime glaze over the past 10 minutes or so of baking the cake (See Tequila Lime Glaze Directions Beneath).

  • Take away the freshly baked cake from the oven and brush the highest with a light-weight coating of the tequila lime glaze. Enable cake to chill for about quarter-hour earlier than turning it out onto a cake plate.

  • Brush the highest and sides with tequila lime glaze utilizing a pastry brush. Enable to soak in earlier than including the ornamental white sugar glaze drizzle. *We did not use the entire tequila lime glaze.

Sugar Glaze/Drizzle

  • Mix substances (confectioners sugar, tequila/lime juice, zest, pinch of salt) stirring till easy. Whether it is too thick, add a bit extra juice or tequila. If too skinny, add further confectioners sugar. Cowl with plastic wrap till prepared to make use of.

Adorning the Cake

  • After brushing the cake with the Tequila Glaze and permitting it to soak in, you may apply the sugar glaze/drizzle. You’ll be able to spoon it over the cake or spoon it right into a disposable piping bag with the tip snipped away if you would like extra management. Sprinkle with lime zest if you would like.

Substitution for Cake Flour: Utilizing all function flour (plain in UK) to make Cake Flour: For every cup of flour in a recipe, take away 2 Tablespoons of flour and exchange with 2 Tablespoons cornstarch (cornflour within the UK). This recipe has 3 cups of flour so you’ll measure out 3 cups of all function flour, take away 6 Tablespoons and exchange with 6 Tablespoons cornstarch, whisk to mix.
Bundt Pan: Our bundt pan has a baking capability of 12 cups and measures about 10 inches. In case you are working with a smaller pan, it would take longer to bake. Watch out to not overfill. (Basic rule of thumb: do not fill pan previous ⅔ full)
Cannot discover Margarita Combine? Our native grocery shops carry frozen Bacardi Margarita Combine year-round. Nonetheless, if you cannot discover it or want to go one other route, attempt our scrumptious Key Lime Pound Cake recipe and brush it with the tequila lime glaze.
 
 
 
This recipe makes about 8 cups of batter.

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