White Chocolate—Raspberry Pound Cake
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INGREDIENTS
- For the Cake:
- 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 8 ounces white chocolate chips
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 5 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup sour cream, at room temperature
- For the Glaze:
- 2 packages (6 ounces each) fresh raspberries
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon grated lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
DIRECTIONS
- Making the Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Grease and flour a 9-inch fluted tube pan.
- Add 2 tablespoons sugar to the pan, tapping to spread sugar evenly.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda.
- In a small microwave-safe bowl, heat 1/2 cup white chocolate chips on DEFROST until chips appear soft, about 2 minutes; stir until smooth.
- In a large bowl, using an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat remaining sugar and butter until fluffy, about 4 minutes.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in vanilla and melted white chocolate. Alternately beat flour mixture and sour cream into batter just until blended.
- Pour one-third of batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle about half of remaining chips onto batter.
- Pour half of the remaining batter into the pan; top with remaining chips.
- Pour remaining batter into the pan, smoothing top with a spoon.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean, 50–55 minutes.
- Transfer the pan to a wire rack; cool for 10 minutes.
- Turn cake onto the rack; cool completely.
- Making the Glaze:
- Set aside 1/2 cup raspberries.
- In a medium heavy nonreactive saucepan, heat remaining berries, 1/2 cup water, sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest over medium-high heat.
- Cook mixture, stirring and mashing raspberries with the back of a wooden spoon, until slightly thickened, about 3 minutes.
- In a small bowl, combine cornstarch and 2 tablespoons water; stir until cornstarch is dissolved.
- Add cornstarch mixture to raspberry mixture; increase heat to high and bring mixture to a boil.
- Boil mixture until thickened and cornstarch no longer appears cloudy, about 3 minutes; cool glaze completely.
- Garnishing the Cake:
- Strain glaze through a fine mesh sieve to remove most.