Dessert Recipes to Enhance Your Springtime

 

by: Bobby McDonald

 

Are you looking for something exciting to serve for dessert? Does that "sweettooth" just beg for some delightful dessert? Well, try the following recipes to enhance your springtime table or event. They're sure to please even the most discriminating diner.

 

 

Aunt Annie's Sour Cream
Pound Cake

2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter
3 cups granulated sugar

6 whole eggs

1 cup sour cream
3 cups all-purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.

Butter a 10-inch tube pan, and dust with flour. Set aside.

In a large mixing bowl, with an electric mixer, cream the butter, then gradually add
the sugar, continuing to beat until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at the time, beating
well after each addition. Stir in the sour cream.

Sift the flour with the baking soda, and then sift the mixture again. Add to the wet mixture
above, 1/2 cup at the time, beating well after each addition.

Add the vanilla extract.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake in the oven for 1 1/2 hours, or until a
toothpick inserted into the center of cake comes clean.

Let the cake cool for 5 minutes and remove from pan.

Serve plain, with your favorite fresh berries, or favorite sauce.

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Aunt Myrtie's Apple-Walnut Bread

 

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 large whole eggs
2 large McIntosh apples, peeled and grated
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Butter a 4 1/2 X 8 1/2 inch loaf pan and set aside.

In large mixing bowl, with an electric mixer, cream the butter with the sugar, until
light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at the time, beating well after each addition. Combine
the apples with the walnuts and the vanilla. Fold into the butter mixture and stir well to
combine. Sift together the flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder, and gradually add,
to the wet ingredients, stirring well to combine.

Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour, or
until a toothpick comes clean, in center of cake.

Let the loaf cool in pan, and unmold. Slice to serve.

 

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