Pound-Cake Hearts with Cherry Sauce

Name: Pound-Cake Hearts with Cherry Sauce
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon almond extract; 79 milliliters applesauce; 1 teaspoons baking powder; 680 grams frozen dark sweet cherries, thawed; 4 larges egg yolks, plus 3 egg whites, at room temperature; 414 milliliters all-purpose flour; 59 milliliters lemon juice; 0 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps sour cream; 118 milliliters sugar; 296 milliliters sugar; 227 grams (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 pints vanilla ice cream

Pound-Cake Hearts with Cherry Sauce might be just the side dish you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains roughly 10g of protein, 39g of fat, and a total of 814 calories. This recipe serves 8. This recipe covers 14% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. If you have lemon juice, vanillan ice cream, baking powder, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Make cake: Preheat oven to 325F. Butter a 9- by 5-inch loaf pan. Use a mixer to cream butter and sugar. Beat in almond extract, applesauce and sour cream.

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Almond Extract

Applesauce

Sour Cream

Butter

Cream

Sugar

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Loaf Pan

Blender

Oven

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a separate bowl. Reduce mixer speed; add flour mixture in 3 parts. Beat in yolks. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Fold 1/3 of whites into batter. Gently fold in remaining whites.

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Baking Powder

Egg Whites

All Purpose Flour

Egg Yolk

Salt

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Blender

Bowl

Pour into pan; bake until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean, 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool on rack for 10 minutes, then turn cake out. (Can be made 2 days ahead; wrap in foil and refrigerate.)

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Wrap

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Toothpicks

Oven

Aluminum Foil

Frying Pan

Mix cherries, sugar, lemon juice and preserves; simmer over mediumlow heat, stirring often, until warmed, about 7 minutes.

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Lemon Juice

Preserves

Cherries

Sugar

Drain cherries and return juices to pan. Boil juices until reduced by half, 5 minutes. Return cherries to pan, remove from heat and stir in liquor; cool. (Can be made 2 days ahead; cover and chill.)

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Cherries

Liquor

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Frying Pan

Assemble dessert: Slice cake. Use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to make 16 hearts. Toast Kir Royale

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Toast

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Cookie Cutter

Pour 2 teaspoons crme de cassis into each of 8 stem glasses and fill with chilled Champagne or sparkling white wine.

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White Wine

Champagne

Creme De Cassis

Serve cold.

Serves PER SERVING: 103 Cal., 0g Fat, 0mg Chol., 0g Fiber, 0g Pro., 4g Carb., 6mg Sod. until lightly browned. Scoop ice cream onto serving plates. Arrange 2 hearts around scoops and add 2 Tbsp. sauce.

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Ice Cream