Apple Cider Pound Cake

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This delightfully, moist Apple Cider Pound Cake is deliciously flavored with subtle hints of apple cider, butter and maple syrup fall flavors.  We then drizzled it with a yummy caramel apple cider glaze to take this pound cake to the next level!

Sounds serious! Yeah, that right!  Seriously perfect pound cake recipe for fall!  You may enjoy these Baked Apple Cider Donuts too!  Perfect when you have leftover apple cider!

Glazed Caramel Apple Cider Pound Cake sliced on board

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We have a lovely farm market in our neck of the woods right here in Goshen, Indiana called Kercher’s Sunrise Orchards that has an annual Harvest Festival.

They have free hayrides, U-Pick Apples, U-Pick Pumpkins and gourds and all kinds of great tasting nom-noms like Roast Pork Sandwiches, Fresh Apple Dumplings, Caramel Apples and homemade Apple Cider. (Which by the way, inspired me to make this Apple Cider Pound Cake!)

Their homemade cider is awesome and they start pressing in late August. Their fame-to-claim Apple Cider is called “Kercher’s October Gold” and they distribute it to many Martin’s Supermarkets in my corner of the world, as well as sell it at their market.

Kercher's October Gold Apple Cider

Serve this Apple Cider Pound Cake warm, room temperature or cold. I have no problem eating it any ole way I can get it in my pie-hole.

My family is addicted to warming pretty much every dessert in the microwave. So, if  you serve it warm, top it off with even more glaze to get the full effect of the cozy feeling of fall! However, this recipe is awesome to have extra glaze just for that purpose.

So, if you don’t want all that yummy, warm, delicious, succulent caramel cider apple glaze dripping down on your pound cake in slow motion, can you just forget I even mentioned it?  🙂

Speaking of caramel apple, this Caramel Glazed Apple Crumble Coffee Cake is a another winner!

loaf of Apple Cider Pound Cake

Ingredients You Need

Apple Cider Pound Cake Recipe

  • all-purpose flour
  • salt
  • baking powder
  • butter 
  • granulated sugar
  • eggs 
  • maple syrup or vanilla extract
  • apple cider, I used my local Apple Cider from Kercher’s

Caramel Apple Cider Glaze Recipe

  • powdered sugar
  • apple cider
  • caramel sauce
  • whipping cream or milk
  • salt

How to Make Apple Cider Pound Cake

  1. Preheat the oven to 325 F. Spray loaf pan with non-sticking spray and set aside.

Apple Cider Pound Cake

  1. In a small bowl, add the flour, salt, and baking powder and whisk together until combined.
  2. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, whip butter until light and fluffy.
  3. Add sugar and beat a few minutes until the butter is lighter in color.
  4. Then, add the eggs one at a time, beating in between additions; add in vanilla and mix until well blended.
  5. Add dry ingredients alternately with cider mixture to batter. Mix until just combined. (Overmixing will lead to a dense cake and you want a tight, tender crumb)
  6. Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 60-65 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  7. Check at 50 minutes to make sure the edges and top isn’t browning. If it is, cover with aluminum foil and continue baking until done.
  8. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove it to a wire rack to cool completely.

Caramel Apple Cider Glaze

  1. Whisk the apple cider, powdered sugar caramel and whipping cream together until smooth and has the consistency of glaze to pour. (Add more cider if it’s too thick or more powdered sugar if it’s too thin.)
  2. Put glaze in microwave until heated, 30 seconds or so. Pour about ⅓ of glaze slowly back and forth up and down the length of the cooled cake.
  3. Let glaze set until firm, if you can wait that long!

For the EXTRA UMPH FACTOR to your pound cake delight

  1. Heat glaze up in microwave and serve remaining glaze over individual cake servings. You can heat the pound cake up too! ????

If you want the EXTRA, EXTRA UMPH FACTOR factor

  1. Add ice cream and just pour the glaze on top of that!

Apple Cider Pound Cake with glaze on top

This Apple Cider Pound Cake would be perfect with your morning coffee, hot chocolate or with a tall cold glass of milk or maybe even some hot apple cider?! 🙂 Right?

Let’s get fall baking this apple pound cake recipe!

slices of Pound Cake

Hope you enjoy!

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Glazed Caramel Apple Cider Pound Cake

Glazed Caramel Apple Cider Pound Cake

Kim Lange
This delightfully, moist Apple Cider Pound Cake is deliciously flavored with subtle hints of apple cider, butter and maple syrup.  We then drizzled it with a yummy caramel apple cider glaze really takes this pound cake to the next level!
Sounds serious! Yeah, that right!  Seriously perfect for Fall!
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Breakfast
Servings Slices
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Ingredients
  

Apple Cider Pound Cake

Caramel Apple Cider Glaze

  • 2 ¼ cups powdered sugar
  • ¼ cup apple cider
  • 4 tablespoons caramel sauce
  • 1 tablespoon whipping cream or heavy cream
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
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Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 325 F. Spray loaf pan with non-sticking spray and set aside.

Apple Cider Pound Cake

  • In a small bowl, add the flour, salt, and baking powder and whisk together until combined.
  • In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, whip butter until light and fluffy.
  • Add sugar and beat a few minutes until the butter is lighter in color.
  • Add the eggs one at a time, beating in between additions; add in vanilla and mix until well blended.
  • Add dry ingredients alternately with cider mixture to batter. Mix until just combined. (Overmixing will lead to a dense cake and you want a tight, tender crumb)
  • Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 60-65 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • Check at 50 minutes to make sure the edges and top isn't browning. If it is, cover with aluminum foil and continue baking until done.
  • Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove it to a wire rack to cool completely.

Caramel Apple Cider Glaze

  • Whisk the apple cider,powdered sugar caramel and whipping cream together until smooth and has the consistency of glaze to pour. (Add more cider if it’s too thick or more powdered sugar if it’s too thin.)
  • Put glaze in microwave until heated, 30 seconds or so. Pour about 1/3 of glaze slowly back and forth up and down the length of the cooled cake.
  • Let glaze set until firm, if you can wait that long!

For the extra umph factor to your pound cake delight

  • Heat glaze up in microwave and serve remaining glaze over individual cake servings. You can heat the pound cake up too! 🙂

If you want the extra, extra umph factor

  • Add ice cream and just pour the glaze on top of that!

Notes

Truly a wonderful dessert that can be prepared in so many different ways! Cinnamon chips? Cinnamon Spice? Hard Cider?
Keyword apple, apple cider, breakfast, caramel, easy quick bread, fall baking, pound cake, snack
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