This Lucuma Pound Cake is flavored with Lucuma puree. My American friends commented on how much the flavor resembles the taste of the dulce de leche.
I served it with a citrus salad: pink grapefruit, oranges, mandarins, and Meyer lemons with honey and mint. It was a very successful combination.
You can buy Lucuma powder at Amazon, replace the Lucuma puree with ⅓ cup of Lucuma powder, and add ½ cup of brown sugar to the recipe.
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Lucuma Pound Cake
- Prep Time: 45 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour
- Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Yield: 10
- Category: Cake
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Chilean
Description
A great and different cake
Ingredients
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- 200 grams of softened butter (if using unsalted add ½ teaspoon to the dough)
- ⅓ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup lucuma puree (use Guallarauco) or ⅓ cup lucuma powder and ½ cup brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ⅓ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F or 180C. Butter a pound cake mold 9 “x 5” or 12 x 23 cm.
- In a large bowl with a mixer, beat butter until creamy, like mayonnaise. Add sugar and beat until pale, about 2 minutes. Add lucuma puree and beat until well incorporated.
- Add eggs, one and then the other, beating until fully incorporated in between. Add vanilla and salt, if using, and beat until a homogeneous mixture, 1 minute more.
- Add the flour and baking powder and beat until well incorporated throughout.
- Place dough in a greased cake pan and bake for 55-60 minutes until golden and a stick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Cool on a rack, unmold cold, cut, and serve.
