Kentucky Pound Cake With Gingered Compote

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Maida Heatter is simply a fable successful the culinary satellite for bully reason. The cakes successful her 1975 "Book of Great Desserts" are never-fail and delicious, particularly her lb cakes, including this one.

It's a large thought to cook one, chopped it into 4 pieces and frost them; that way, you'll ever person a speedy dessert connected manus for company. Slices of it tin beryllium served with a effect compote, flavored whipped pick oregon both. This barroom calls for mace, which gives it a distinctive flavor, but cardamom is simply a bully substitution. If utilizing intoxicant is an contented for you, this is not a look to try.

The ginger spirit truly shines done successful the compote. You tin usage immoderate of its syrup to lighten mascarpone oregon whipped pick and marque a parfait, layering the creams and the compote, past topping with crushed, toasted pistachios.

The barroom tin beryllium baked a time oregon 2 successful advance. It besides freezes beautifully. The compote tin beryllium made respective days successful beforehand and refrigerated successful an airtight container.

From Maida Heatter's "Book of Great Desserts" (Knopf, 1975) and Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 20

For the compote

4 steadfast mean pears, preferably bosc oregon reddish bartlett, peeled, cored and chopped into 1/2-inch cubes
1 cupful bourbon
1 cupful sugar
1 2-inch portion unpeeled ginger root, chopped crosswise into bladed slices
1/2 spoon crushed cardamom
1/4 spoon crushed cinnamon
1/4 spoon crushed cloves

For the cake

24 tablespoons (3 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature, positive much for greasing the cookware if desired
3 1/2 cups flour, positive much for the pan
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 cupful full milk
1/4 cupful bourbon
1 tablespoonful vanilla extract
1/2 spoon crushed mace oregon cardamom
3 1/4 cups airy brownish sugar
5 ample eggs, astatine country temperature

For the glaze

1/3 cupful sugar
1/4 cupful bourbon

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (with compote)

Calories
470
Fat
16 g
Saturated Fat
9 g
Carbohydrates
71 g
Sodium
70 mg
Cholesterol
90 mg
Protein
4 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
52 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Maida Heatter's "Book of Great Desserts" (Knopf, 1975) and Real Entertaining columnist David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published January 25, 2011

Updated March 13, 2026