Cardamom Sour Cream Cake in a Flowerpot

Name: Cardamom Sour Cream Cake in a Flowerpot
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 3 Tbsps sliced almonds; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoons baking soda; 170 grams 3/4 cup butter or margarine, at room temperature; 1 (about 15 in. square) cooking parchment; 3 larges eggs; 591 milliliters all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters golden raisins; 1 teaspoons ground cardamom; 1 unglazed terra-cotta pot (5 in. tall and 6 in. wide); 237 milliliters sour cream; 296 milliliters sugar

This recipe makes 12 servings with 517 calories, 27g of protein, and 23g of fat each. This recipe covers 19% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes. Head to the store and pick up cream, flour, unglazed terra-cotta pot, and a few other things to make it today.

Instructions

Wash pot with soap and water and dry well. Line pot with cooking parchment: Push center of parchment into pot, then press outward to fit contours of pot; bend parchment edges outward over edges of pot.

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In a bowl, with a mixer on high speed, beat butter and sugar until fluffy.

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Sugar

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Add eggs and beat until well blended. Turn mixer to medium and beat in sour cream.

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Sour Cream

Egg

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In another bowl, mix flour, raisins, baking powder, baking soda, and cardamom.

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Cardamom

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All Purpose Flour

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Add to butter mixture and beat on medium speed until well blended. Scrape batter into parchment-lined pot.

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Sprinkle almonds evenly over the top.

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Set cake in the lower third (but preferably not on bottom level) of a 300 regular or convection oven. If you must set pot on the bottom level to fit, place on an inverted shallow baking pan to lift cake slightly so bottom doesn't get too brown. If parchment touches top of oven, fold down farther over pot edges.

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Bake until a long wooden skewer inserted in center of cake comes out clean, 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours.

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Cool cake in pot on a rack for 15 to 20 minutes, then lift from pot and set upright on rack. Cool at least 1 1/2 hours longer. For presentation, return cake to pot. To serve, lift cake from pot, peel off parchment, and cut into wedges.

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