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Home » Cake & Cupcakes » Orange Blossom Pound Cake with Cherry Glaze

Orange Blossom Pound Cake with Cherry Glaze

23/08/2019 by Emma 3 Comments

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Orange Blossom Pound Cake with Cherry Glaze

Orange Blossom Pound Cake with Cherry Glaze

A moist, buttery orange blossom pound cake with cherry glaze that is perfectly dense but not dry and crumbly. It’s a classic and finished off here with this beautiful cherry glaze made from fresh cherries that greatly compliments the fragrant orange blossom sponge.

I love a good old fashioned pound cake. It’s one of those recipes that has to grace the pages of any bakers recipe book. It’s a go to staple when a classic, unfussy recipe has to be called up on. Dress it up with berries and a dollop of whipped cream, marble chocolate through it or leave as is and serve with a cup of tea, this little pound cake is deceptively versatile. As a result this recipe is one that you can make for your family and friends and you know that they’ll enjoy it.

  • Bag of cherries
  • Cooked cherries and drained

I’ve been using orange blossom water for years, primarily when I make my crepes and it’s one of those pantry ingredients that you don’t want to run out of when baking. I added orange blossom water to the sponge so that it it could impart a beautiful perfumed aroma to the cake and it compliments the cherries wonderfully. I wanted to create a cake that was firstly simple to make and secondly simple to decorate. Furthermore, it still had to taste delicious. I think we ticked all the boxes!

Orange blossom pound cake ingredients
Baking and orange pound cake

What is Orange Blossom Water

Are you quizzically asking yourself the question of what the hell is orange blossom water?

Well I’m here to tell you a little bit about it as for me it is one of my favourite additions to baking.

So what is it?

The orange blossom actually comes from the orange tree. Kind of makes sense right? All those beautiful white flowers are distilled to then make the orange blossom or orange flower water.

The smell is intoxicatingly fragrant and it’s a popular fixture in French, Italian or Morroccan houses and hence in their cooking, particularly desserts and baked goods.

Whats the difference between orange blossom water and orange extract?

Orange blossom water, as mentioned above, derives from the petals of the orange tree. The taste and aroma are both delicate and floral, imparting soft yet complex taste to your dessert.

Orange extract comes from the actual orange fruit itself, the zest or the flesh itself. The taste therefore has a much more intense orangey flavour.

If you are struggling to find Orange Blossom Water in your local store, then try ordering online the Nielsen-Massey brand … they are my favourite brand when it comes to extracts or flavoured waters such as this. (this is unsponsored, I just love them! Look on amazon here.

Cherries swirled into orange blossom pound cake
Cherry glaze poured onto the orange blossom cake

Orange Blossom Pound Cake with Cherry Glaze ins and outs

I’ll take you step by step in how I make this pound cake and you’ll also learn how to make cherry glaze. The combination of orange blossom and cherries is divine. Both sweet yet delicate flavours, they’re the perfect addition to this buttery sponge cake.

The cherry syrup

You can’t miss out on this step. Seriously the cherry syrup is divine and the recipe makes more than what you need. For the excess I strongly recommend drizzling it on your slice of pound cake. Or if you want to save it up then drizzle it on chocolate ice-cream … or your morning porridge. Whatever you do … don’t throw it out!!! I’d be heart broken if you did.

  1. Alright, so to make it is easy. Add the pitted and sliced cherries, water and sugar into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for ten minutes. The cherries will have softened and the sugar, water and cherry juice and pulp will have created a beautiful syrup.
  2. Now you need to sieve it. Place your sieve over a bowl and pour the contents of the saucepan into the sieve. Stir the cherries gently so that the syrup runs through the sieve into the bowl. TIP don’t press the the cherries firmly down on the sieve otherwise you’ll pulverise them and be left with a bunch of skins

The orange blossom pound cake

Onto the pound cake. Pound cakes have a distinctive denser texture than a regular sponge cake, but when made correctly they remain moist and soft.

  1. For this one, start by beating the butter until it’s pale and fluffy. Slowly add the sugar beating continuously until fully combined.
  2. Next add the eggs, one at a time, beating between each addition.
  3. Dry ingredients: In a bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt.
  4. Wet ingredients: Whisk together milk, vanilla extract and orange blossom water.
  5. Alternating between the wet and the dry ingredients, beat them into the butter mixture until all have been combined.
  6. Pour half the batter into a greased and lined tine, then spoon the softened cherries and a couple of spoonfuls of cherry syrup onto the batter. Swirl it through with a butter knife or spoon and then pour the rest of the batter onto the top and smooth.
  7. Next bake for 60 mins and I swear the aroma coming out of your kitchen will have you twiddling your thumbs willing it to cook quicker! Once golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean, then remove from the oven and allow to cool on a metal cooling rack.

The cherry glaze

SO that beautiful cherry syrup that we made at the start and used some of it in the batter… well we’re using it to hero the glaze.

I din’t use artificial colours in my baking and it constantly amazes me of the colours that fruit such as cherries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries create. I mean seriously … could it be a prettier pink? Nope!

  1. In a bowl whisk 2 tablespoons of cherry syrup and the icing sugar until smooth. Thats it! Pour it all over your cooled pound cake and decorate with more beautiful, juicy cherries.

My pot of thyme was flowering at the time of my shoot so i snipped a couple of spins and flowers to add even more prettiness to this divine cake.

  • View from over the top of cherries decorating a sponge cake
  • Slices from a cherry cake
Orange Blossom Pound Cake with Cherry Glaze

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Orange Blossom Pound Cake with Cherry Glaze

Orange Blossom Pound Cake with Cherry Glaze

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  • Author: Emma
  • Prep Time: 20
  • Cook Time: 60
  • Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
  • Yield: 8
  • Category: Cakes
  • Method: Baking
  • Cuisine: Americain
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A moist, buttery orange blossom pound cake with cherry glaze that is perfectly dense but not dry and crumbly. It’s a complete classic with a twist and the beautiful cherry glaze made from fresh cherries compliments the fragrant orange blossom sponge perfectly.


Ingredients

For the cherry syrup

240ml (1 cup) water

120g (1/2 cup) sugar

225g (1 cup cherries) pitted and sliced

 

For the orange blossom pound cake

220g (1 cup) unsalted butter, softened

340g (1 1/2 cups) granulated sugar

6 eggs, room temperature

300g (2 cups) plain flour, sifted

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon sea salt

120ml (1/2 cup) milk

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 teaspoon orange blossom water

 

For the cherry glaze

2 tablespoons cherry syrup

240g (1 ½) cups icing sugar, sifted

115g (1/2 cup) cherries to decorate

Thyme sprigs and flowers, to decorate, optional


Instructions

For the cherry syrup

  1. Bring water, sugar and cherries to the boil in a small saucepan. Simmer for ten minutes so that the cherries are softened. Strain the syrup and set aside separately the syrup and the cherries. This recipe won’t require all the syrup in the pound cake or glaze, but it would be delicious to pour some of the syrup on your cut slice of pound cake.

 

For the orange blossom pound cake

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 170C (340F) and grease a standard loaf pan, then line with greaseproof paper. In a large bowl, using an electric mixer or handheld beaters, beat the butter until light and creamy. Add the sugar gradually, beating all the time and then add one egg at a time beating until combined before adding the next egg.
  2. In a separate bowl whisk together flour, baking powder and salt (dry ingredients). In a small jug whisk milk, vanilla extract and orange blossom water together until combined (wet ingredients).
  3. Beat in the wet and the dry ingredients into the sugar/butter/egg mixture, alternating between the two until they are all combined. 
  4. Pour half the batter into the prepared pan. Spoon the softened cherries onto the batter and then spoon a couple of tablespoons of syrup. Swirl the two into the batter. Pour the remaining batter into the pan and smooth the top. Place in the oven and bake for 60 minutes or until a knife inserted into the centre of the loaf comes out clean and the sponge springs back when pressed lightly on top. Remove from the oven and leave in the tin for ten minutes before removing and allowing to cool completely on a wire rack.

 

For the cherry glaze

  1. In a medium bowl, whisk the icing sugar and 2 tbsp cherry syrup until combined. If too thick then add more syrup, one teaspoon at a time. 

 

To decorate

  1. Once the pound cake has fully cooled, pour the cherry glaze over the pound cake and allow to set for ten minutes before decorating with cherries and thyme sprigs. Slice up and enjoy with an extra drizzle of cherry syrup if you like! Enjoy!

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