Mini
Sour Cream Pound Cakes
By FBWorld Team
When
it comes to cooking for just two people, scaling down
recipes is often a challenge, and finding dessert recipes
that serve just two people is nearly impossible. Christina
Lane, blogger behind the popular site†Dessert for
Two, uses this challenge as inspiration in her new, aptly-named
cookbook,†Dessert for Two: Small Batch Cookies,
Brownies, Pies and Cakes.
Mini
Sour Cream Pound Cakes
Courtesy
of Dessert for Two
Yield:
4 individual cakes
Ingredients:
1/4 cup (50 grams) Granulated Sugar
4 tbls. (60 grams) Unsalted Butter, (at room temperature)
1/2 tspn. Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla
Extract
1/4 tspn. Nielsen-Massey Pure Almond Extract
1 lg. Egg + 1 lg. Egg Yolk
3 tbls. (45 mL) Full-fat Sour Cream
1/2 cup (60 grams) All-purpose Flour
1/4 tspn. Baking Powder
1/8 tspn. Salt
Procedures:
1. Preheat oven to 375∞F. Place
cupcake liners in four cups along the edge of a muffin
pan.
2.
In a medium-size bowl, using an electric mixer on medium
speed, cream together the sugar and butter for 1 minute.
Add the vanilla and almond extract and beat until combined.
Next, add the whole egg, egg yolk, and sour cream and
beat until combined.
3.
Sprinkle the flour, baking powder, and salt on top of
the wet ingredients. Beat until just combined; do not
overmix.
4.
Divide the batter equally among the prepared muffin cups.
Bake for 16 to 18 minutes. Itís okay to remove
the pound cakes when moist crumbs cling to a toothpick
inserted into the center of a cake, and the tops appear
slightly damp.
5.
Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes, and then allow to cool
completely on a cooling rack.
About
Dessert for Two
Dessert for Two takes well-loved desserts and scales them
down to make only two servings. Author and blogger Christina
Lane took her beloved stack of recipes and made them more
realistic for her lifestyle (and waistline). Those recipes,
many tried-and-tested by fans of her blog, are gathered
together with tips and advice on baking small.
Told
with a friendly voice that could only come from a Texan,
Dessert for Two provides readers with all the information
they could need to make wonderful desserts with reasonable
serving sizes.
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