AMARETTO-ALMOND POUND CAKE

Amaretto-Almond Pound Cake image

Provided by Lynette ! @breezermom

Categories Cakes

Number Of Ingredients 13

1 1/4 cup(s) butter, softened
3 ounce(s) cream cheese, softened
2 1/2 cup(s) sugar
3 1/2 tablespoon(s) almond liqueur, (amaretto)
1 tablespoon(s) vanilla extract
2 1/2 cup(s) all purpose flour
6 large eggs
1/3 cup(s) sliced almonds
GLAZE
3/4 cup(s) sugar
6 tablespoon(s) butter
1/4 cup(s) almond liqueur (amaretto)
2 tablespoon(s) water

Steps:

Preheat oven to 325°.
Beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add liqueur and vanilla, beating just until blended. Gradually add flour to butter mixture, beating at low speed just until blended after each addition.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating at low speed just until blended after each addition.
Sprinkle almonds over bottom of a greased and floured 12-cup Bundt pan; pour batter into pan.
Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 5 minutes to 1 hour and 10 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Glaze:
Bring sugar, butter, almond liqueur, and water to a boil in a small 1-qt. saucepan over medium heat, stirring often; reduce heat to medium-low, and boil, stirring constantly, 3 minutes. Remove from heat, and use immediately.
During last 10 minutes of baking, prepare Amaretto Glaze. Remove cake from oven, and gradually spoon hot Amaretto Glaze over cake in pan. (Continue to spoon glaze over cake until all of glaze is used, allowing it to soak into cake after each addition.) Cool completely in pan on a wire rack (about 1 hour and 30 minutes).