This pretty-in-Pink Funfetti Pound Cake gets its pinkish color from sanding saccharide sprinkles instead of nutrient coloring, as well as so gets fifty-fifty prettier amongst confetti sprinkles folded inwards the batter!
I'm ever total of what I telephone telephone 'I wonders.' As inwards like, 'I wonder what would come about if I position ____ inwards this ______.' Or like, 'I wonder how it would gustatory modality if I combined ______ as well as ______.' I gauge that's why I similar cooking as well as recipe evolution so much. I teach to constantly examine out my 'I wonders.'
I teach to examine out 'I wonders' inwards my classroom, too. Like when my lilliputian s graders as well as I were doing scientific discipline experiments amongst solids, liquids, as well as gases this calendar week as well as nosotros were creating a gas amongst vinegar as well as baking soda ... so watching the gas created blow upward a balloon. And I had an 'I wonder' nearly whether or non all liquids as well as baking soda exercise a gas when they combine ... so I asked them to come upward up amongst a invention for how nosotros could examine that out.
As I had hoped, they of class came upward amongst the invention of combining baking soda amongst the other liquids nosotros had at that topographic point ... water, oil, as well as nutrient coloring ... to come across what would happen. One squad of students, however, also had an 'I wonder' nearly soda. They were so enthusiastic nearly wondering what would come about if baking soda as well as well, regular soda mixed together! It was so cute.
And I couldn't resist.
I precisely had to examine out their 'I wonder.'
So I went to the vending machine, bought a soda, as well as nosotros position their 'I wonder' to the test. {Hee, hee.}
And permit me precisely tell ya, inwards instance you're curious, ... baking soda as well as 'regular' soda do exercise a gas when they combine. Quite a potent gas, too. It exploded our balloon! And nosotros may or may non accept gotten soda all over the carpet. {Shhhhhhhh ... don't tell our principal, okay?}
And that's how this Pink Funfetti Pound Cake came to be, too.
Through an 'I wonder.'
See, I wondered if yous could exercise a colored cake yesteryear replacing purpose of the granulated saccharide inwards the recipe amongst a chip of colored sanding sugar.
You know, this materials ... that nosotros sprinkle on cookies as well as things equally sugary glitter ...
Well, I discovered that yes, ... yes, yous can!
Now I know yous tin only add together nutrient coloring to batter to brand things colors. But I'm never really proficient at achieving the color I wishing that way. I wanted to come across if I could teach a hue closed to the hues I dear so much inwards my favorite sanding saccharide sprinkles yesteryear using them inwards the batter. And yous can! The color comes out a chip lighter as well as non equally intense equally the sprinkles ... but correct on business amongst the hue!
Love it.
And using the sanding saccharide didn't modify the texture of the pound cake. Which I was a lilliputian worried about. Not certain if it would run inwards a cake amongst a lighter crumb, though ... hmmmmmm, may demand to banking concern check that out sometime.
Then I decided to brand my pretty-in-pink pound cake ane footstep prettier amongst these ...
... confetti sprinkles!
The bigger disc kind.
So they'd demo upward actually proficient as well as pretty inwards the baked cake. Like brilliant lilliputian spots of fun!
Aren't the brilliant lilliputian spots of fun pretty? I intend so!
So I decided to add together some to a greater extent than spots of fun to the endure yesteryear of the cake. Ahhh, fifty-fifty prettier.
So, what are you 'I wondering' today?? I tell become ahead as well as endeavor it!! It precisely may work.
Pink Funfetti Pound Cake
Source: A Tracey original, based on my mother-in-law's Classic Vanilla Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 c. granulated sugar
- 1/4 c. pink sanding sugar/sprinkles {substitute other colors, if desired}
- 1/2 lb. unsalted butter {2 sticks}
- 2 T. Crisco shortening
- 6 large eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3 c. all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 c. whole milk {2% milk also industrial plant fine}
- 3 T. confetti disc sprinkles
- 1/2 c. confectioners sugar
- A lilliputian chip less than 1 T. water
- Additional confetti disc sprinkles, equally desired
- Cream the granulated sugar, colored sanding sugar, butter, as well as Crisco amongst an electrical mixer, nearly 3-4 minutes.
- Add eggs as well as vanilla; shell amongst an electrical mixer nearly 10-15 minutes. Be certain to shell for the total time.
- Combine the flour as well as baking powder. With the mixer on low, add together flour mixture as well as milk, alternately, to the creamed saccharide as well as eggs mixture. Mix afterward each add-on until precisely combined. Gently plication inwards iii tablespoons confetti sprinkles.
- Pour batter into a subway scheme pan that has been generously sprayed amongst non-stick baking spray {or buttered & floured}. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until a toothpick inserted inwards the endure yesteryear comes out clean. Cool nearly a 1/2 an hr inwards the pan; take cake from pan.
- Whisk together confectioners saccharide as well as H2O until smooth. Drizzle over cake. Immediately spell glaze is soundless wet, sprinkle amongst additional confetti sprinkles equally desired.
Enjoy!
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