Sweet Clementines make a super delicious pound cake complete with clementine glaze. Perfect for snack or dessert!
Course Dessert
Keyword Clementine Pound Cake
Cook Time 50 minutesminutes
Total Time 50 minutesminutes
Author Kelly Pugliano | Eat Picks®
Ingredients
6-7clementine oranges
½cupbutter1 stick, softened
2eggs
1 ½cflour
1cupsugar
1tsp.baking powder
½cupsour cream
1/3cjuice of clementine
Zest 6 clementine
1tsp.vanilla
Pinchkosher salt
Glaze:
¼cupclementine juiceabout 2 fruit
½csugar
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In small bowl, zest skin of 6 clementine fruit. Set aside.
In small measuring cup, juice the zested fruit to measure 1/3 cup. (about 4 fruit)
In separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
Prepare loaf pan by greasing lightly with butter.
In mixer bowl, cream the butter and sugar.
Add eggs one at a time until incorporated.
Add 1/3 of flour mixture to mixer bowl, then half juice. Alternate until all flour and juice have been added.
Add vanilla and zest and mix until combined.
Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and smooth out top.
Bake for 40-50 minutes until cake tester comes clean from center of loaf. If still liquidy, bake in 5 minute increments until golden brown and tester is clean.
While cake is baking, make the glaze.
In bowl combine sugar and juice of 2 clementine and set aside.
Place a sheet of wax paper underneath a cooling rack.
Remove cake and let cool in pan for 5 minutes.
Remove from pan and place on cooling rack.
With wooden skewer, poke holes in top of warm cake.