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Blackberry orange vanilla pound cake makes the best summer dessert! Infused with fresh orange zest and vanilla, the golden cake showcases a ribbon of sweet blackberry preserves and vine ripened blackberries. Topped with vanilla butter glaze, this is one cake to enjoy with scoops of vanilla ice cream and fresh blackberries.
This recipe is incredibly versatile, so mix things up with your favorite citrus zest and jam! Plush, golden, and delicious down to the last crumb, this blackberry orange vanilla pound cake is simply scrumptious (and leftovers make the best breakfast!).
Pound Cake Baking Tips
- Bring all of your cake ingredients to room temperature before beginning. When your butter, eggs, egg yolk, and buttermilk are all at room temperature, they mix together uniformly.
- To create the swirl, spoon half of the cake batter into the prepared bundt pan. Smooth the batter with an offset spatula and tap the pan sharply to reduce air bubbles. Top with spoonfuls of blackberry preserves and use a toothpick to very gently swirl the jam into the batter. Add blackberries, gently pressing into the jam layer. Spoon the remaining cake batter evenly over the berry layer, carefully smoothing with an offset spatula. Tap the pan sharply again to reduce air bubbles.
- Bake cake until golden and the top springs back to the touch. A tester inserted in the center should come out with a few crumbs attached. Your baking time may vary depending on the shape of your bundt pan, so start testing for doneness after 40 minutes.
- This cake can be made one day in advance. Let cool completely and store at room temperature overnight. Add the glaze 1 hour before serving.
Blackberry Orange Vanilla Pound Cake
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 46 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 16 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Description
Blackberry orange vanilla pound cake makes the best dessert! With a ribbon of blackberry jam and sweet vanilla glaze, you’ll love this pound cake recipe.
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 3/4 tsp aluminum-free baking powder*
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 2 Tbsp orange zest
- 10 Tbsp unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs plus 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
- 1 cup low-fat buttermilk, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup blackberry preserves
- 2/3 cup fresh blackberries, halved
Glaze
- 1 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar, sifted
- 1 1/2 Tbsp milk
Instructions
- For the cake, preheat oven to 350°F and butter and flour a 10-cup bundt pan. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
- Combine sugar and orange zest in a food processor and pulse for 1 minute. Beat butter and orange-sugar in a large mixer bowl on medium speed until pale and fluffy. Reduce speed to low and add eggs and egg yolk one at a time. Beat in vanilla until incorporated. With mixer on low speed, beat in flour mixture in three additions, alternating with buttermilk (begin and end with flour mixture), just until incorporated.
- Spoon half of the batter into prepared bundt pan and smooth with an offset spatula. Tap pan sharply to reduce air bubbles. Top batter with blackberry preserves, dropping by spoonfuls over the batter. Use a toothpick to very gently swirl the jam into the batter. Add blackberries, pressing gently into the jam layer. Spoon remaining batter evenly over the berries and carefully smooth with an offset spatula. Tap pan sharply again to reduce air bubbles.
- Bake for 46 to 50 minutes, until cake is golden, springs back to the touch, and a tester inserted in the center comes out with a few crumbs attached. Cool in pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes; carefully invert onto rack and cool completely.
- For the glaze, whisk together melted butter, salt, vanilla, powdered sugar, and milk in a small bowl. Drizzle glaze over cooled cake and let set before serving. Store leftovers in an airtight container at room temperature.
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I made this yesterday and it came out so well! I made a half recipe because I have a 6 C bundt pan. I used orange marmalade because I had that. I put in 2 rows of blackberries. I substituted 1/4 C of the AP flour with coconut flour, as I needed to use that up. The cake still turned out excellent. This shows that the recipe is versatile and user friendly.