Strawberry Pound Cake With Glaze
This strawberry pound cake with glaze recipe is easy and quick to make, you can use frozen strawberries or fresh strawberries to prepare this delicious strawberry quick bread. Bursting with strawberries, and topped with a sugar glaze, this strawberry pound cake is a fan favorite.
Ingredients
- STRAWBERRY POUND CAKE BATTER
- 1 3/4 cups cake flour or all purpose 210 grams
- 1 1/4 cups of granulated sugar 250 grams
- 1/4 teaspoon salt 1.2 grams
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 6 grams
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter softened or oil (168 grams)
- 5 tablespoon water or milk (75 grams)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 5 grams
- 3 large eggs 150 grams
- 7 oz strawberries fresh or frozen, chopped into small pieces
- SUGAR GLAZE
- 2 cups powdered sugar 220grams
- 4 tablespoons milk 60 grams
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 330°F (165.°C), and grease a pound cake loaf pan (8X4 inches).
- Combine the cake flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and whisk together, set aside.
- Add the butter and sugar into a mixing bowl, using a hand mixer or stand mixer with a paddle attachment, and beat the mixture until light, creamy and pale in color. Scrape the side of the bowl.
- If using oil instead of butter just combine both ingredients and mix together until the mixture is smooth.
- On slow speed add the eggs one at a time followed by the vanilla extract, and beat for one minute
- Add the water or milk, and flour mixture, beat on low speed for one minute, then increase the speed of the mixer to medium-high, and continue to mix for 4 minutes or until the batter is smooth.
- Lastly, add the strawberries and fold them into the batter.
- Pour the strawberry loaf batter into the greased loaf pan.
- Bake for 45-50 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
- Remove the strawberry pound cake from the oven and let it cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer the cake to a cooling rack. The loaf cake will take about 30 minutes to cool down.
- Once the strawberry quick bread is cooled, prepare the glaze.
- Add the powdered sugar and milk into a bowl and whisk together, then pour it over the loaf.
- Slice your delicious strawberry pound cake using a serrated knife.
- Serve and Enjoy!
