Maple Corn Coffee Cake
Ingredients
1 ear of fresh sweet corn or 1/2 cup canned
I TBSP butter
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp bourbon
1 2/3 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup cornmeal
2/3 cup buttermilk
1 cup chopped walnuts
1/3 cup pure maple syrup
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 12 cup Bundt pan using butter and flour
Remove the corn from cob and saute in 1 TBSP butter until lightly cooked and set aside
In large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
Add vanilla and bourbon and mix thoroughly.
In a third bowl combine flour, baking soda, salt and cornmeal and set aside.
Add this dry mixture, alternating with buttermilk, to the butter-sugar mixture.
Stir in the corn and chopped walnuts
Pour butter into prepared Bundt pan.
Bake for 45 to 50 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes before inverting it onto a oven-safe baking sheet or platter
For glaze, gently heat the maple syrup in microwave until hot, about 20 seconds
Brush the syrup over cake allowing it to soak in before adding more
Cover cake completely and place cake back in cooling-down oven for five minutes
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Cranberry Orange Bundt
Cake
2 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cut softened butter
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp almond extract
1 cup sour cream
grated zest one one orange
Filling
8 ounces fresh or frozen cranberries
1/2 cup water
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp almond extract
1/4 cup orange juice
Lemon-Orange Glaze
1/4 cup orange juice
juice of 1/2 lemon
1/3 cup sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Prepare a 12 cup Bundt cake using butter and flour
For Filling combine cranberries, sugar, water, almond extract, and orange juice in small saucepan.
Bring to medium boil and cook, stirring constantly until berries pop and sauce thickens. Take off stove.
Set aside 10 to 12 cranberries that are intact. Allow the mixture to cool at room temp.
For cake combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside
Beat the butter for several seconds in large mixing bowl. Ad sugar and beat until smooth.
Add eggs and almond extract and beat for 2-3 minutes until fluffy.
Add flour mixture and beat until smooth. Add sour cream and zest and mix well.
Pour half of batter into prepared pan. Gently spoon about 2/3 of filling into batter taking care not to
let filling touch sides of pan. Spoon remaining batter on top.
Bake for 55 to 60 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
Cool in pan for 10 minutes before inverting on a serving platter.
To prepare glaze, place orange juice, lemon juice, and sugar in small saucepan.
Simmer on medium heat, stirring until the mixture thickens.
Remove from heat until the cake is finished baking.
While cake is still warm brush on orange-lemon glaze. When cake is cool, spoon the remaining filling
in between the flutes of the Cathedral Bundt. Gently press whole cranberries (set aside from glaze) in
between the "cathedral windows." If you make the cake with standard fluted Bundt, spoon the filling
over the top and stud with whole cranberries.
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Pumpkin Spice Cake
3/4 cup chopped toasted walnuts
1 cup vegetable oil
3 eggs
1 small can pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp bourbon
2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp ground allspice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 12 cup Bundt pan using butter and flour
Place chopped walnuts in a metal pan in the oven and toast for 10 to 15 minutes taking care not to burn.
Set aside nuts to cool.
Beat together oil, eggs, pumpkin, vanilla and bourbon.
Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and spices.
Add flour mixture to pumpkin mixture and mix until combined.
Stir in walnuts and pour into prepared pan.
Bake for 60 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.
Let cool in pan for 10 minutes then turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Serve with dusting of confectioners' sugar or dollop of whipped cream
