You know what I love about pound cake? It’s unpretentious. It’s simple. It’s easy to make and just as easy to eat. You can freeze it in individually wrapped slices and when at 1am you have a craving for something sweet, just throw that bad boy int he microwave for 30 seconds and you’ve got yourself a treat. You can flavor it with almost anything that your little heart desires. Or you can make it plain and slather it, drizzle it, brush it, layer it. Make Ice Cream Pound Cake Sandwiches or a Berry Pound Cake Trifle. You get my drift right? I love pound cake in more ways than one.
Thus, when I received an assortment of Honey Ridge Farms Honey Cremes, I knew I’d make pound cake. Using the Apricot Honey Creme and a starting recipe from Camilla Salisbury’s book, Piece of Cake, these gorgeous Honey Apricot Pound Cakes came to life. The Apricot Honey Creme was sweet but with fruit undertones of the apricot, which made it unlike any other honey product I’ve ever tried. All natural ingredients such as USA Grade A clover honey and apricots, the cremes are never heated filtered, which makes sure you get all the health benefits inside!
Recipe Adapted from Piece of Cake by Camilla Salisbury
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup white whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup Honey Ridge Farms - Honey Crème Apricot
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. In a medium bowl, mix all the dry ingredients. Reserve.
- Melt the Apricot Honey for 30 seconds and whisk into the softened butter. Add this mixture, and the eggs, to dry ingredients. This can be done in a stand mixer, although I used a dough whisk by hand.)
- Divide batter into two greased small loaf pans and bake until golden brown.
- Serve with a extra slathering of Honey Crème Apricot.
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The comments are the official entry, there is no purchase necessary, void where prohibited. US mailing addresses only. One (1) winner will be chosen randomly. Prize will be shipped by Honey Ridge Farms. The contest ends Sunday, June 17th, 2012 at 11:59 pm Eastern time. The winner will be announced on Monday, June 18th, via email and will have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.
Disclaimer: I received their product line free of charge in order to facilitate this recipe and review. No monetary compensation was exchanged and as always, my opinions are my own and I’ll only recommend a product I love and use in my own kitchen.
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Honey is a wonderful thing. And tasty to boot. 🙂 I hope this enters me.
Honey can even increases calcium absorption. It is helps the body in neutralising free radicals. It is good for body fitness.
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I tweeted about your giveaway!
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balsamic honey vinegar… if you looked in my pantry, you’d think I have a slight obsession with vinegars. this vinegar sounds delightful!
I’d love to try their recipe for Blueberry Balsamic Bruschetta using their Balsamic Honey Vinegar…sounds amazing! Thanks!
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I would love to try their Ginger Honey Glaze. Patricia. yellow_patricia at hotamil dot com
I would love to try the Balsamic Honey Vinegar!
Oh I would so love to try these!
Liking the Balsamic Honey Vinegar! Tweeted! Facebooked! Pinned!!
The Ginger Lime Honey Glaze sounds amazing, as do the honey cremes!
the Honey Crème Cranberry sounds especially good! yum!
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I would love to try the Sweet Chili Honey Glaze.
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I’m liking the Sweet Chili Honey Glaze… maybe even on some sweet pound cake! Yours looks awesome BTW.
Also following on GFC – thanks so much!
Following both you and Honey Ridge on Twitter now
Tweeted your giveaway
I’m out of league here. Too much brain power on diaslpy!
Wild Blackberry Honey and that Honey Creme Set looks so delicious! LOVE HONEY 🙂
I follow you on GFC!
I tweeted the giveaway and shared it on my Facebook page:-)
I follow Honey Ridge Farms on Twitter!
I agree, pound cakes are pretty fantastic!!! So I am curious, can I answer everything, to what I want to try from Honey Ridge Farms? LOL! I would love to try all the creme honey you have, and the honey grilling sauces sound fun! YUM!!!! Hugs, Terra
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MMmm… I’d love the honey balsamic vinegar. That sounds soooo good.
I’d love the honey creme gift set 😉 But the Honey Crème Cranberry sounds especiallly good too!
i’d love to try the balsamic honey vinegar!
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Tweeted the giveaway (@squirrelbread).
I’d love to try the Clover Honey Creme. I’m picturing a thick slather on warm bread…
Following on Google Blogger – Thanks so much!
Balsamic Honey Vinegar looks tasty!
You know what I love about pound cake? Everything. Honey sounds great!
i follow honey ridge farms on twitter;)
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i tweeted;) here is the link https://twitter.com/hiyaluv/status/212354930508435456
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i follow your blog. 🙂 gina at hiyaluv dot com
such a great giveaway! I would love to try the grilling sauce;)
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Following on Blogger GFC Thanks so much as I love honey.
Following on Twitter
The Wild Blackberry Honey looks yummy!
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My daughter made her first pound cakes today, yours looks beautiful. Looking at the Honey Ridge Farms site, everything looks so yummy, would also love to try the Fire Roasted Chili Honey Vinegar
Toasted pound cake is amazing, too, by the way!
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Let me start off by saying that I love honey. The darker, more robust the flavor the better and an A+ if its unfiltered. I drizzle honey on my breakfast, lunch and sometimes my evening snack. If I had to pick one product from the site I would have to say the Wild Blackberry Honey.
Great recipe, would love to top that with a raspberry compote.
I recently tried the Honey Ridge Farms Honey Creme Apricot and it was delicious!! I love pound cake too – first time I ever made one was for my final in Baking 1 – I’d missed class the day we made them and so wasn’t quite sure I was doing it right for the final. The kicker? The chef cut mine, held it up and said – “this is a perfect example of pound cake”! LOL!!!
Will you please, please, please come to my house and be my baker? 🙂
Yum.
Poundcake is one of my favorite “dessert items”. Good by itself, good with other yummy items.
This recipe looks perfect!
I tweeted about this awesome giveaway! 🙂
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I’m a huge sucker for pound cake so this recipe is just screaming my name! And the apricot along with that honey is just killing me here!
As for the giveaway question, I would love to try the Serrano Chile Balsamic Honey Vinegar. I’m so intrigued about the addition of the serrano chile here.
The balsamic honey vinegar sounds fantastic, Nelly:)
I am Intrigued by the honey cremes! And I can attest to the fact that solid coconut oil is a good sub for butter in pound cakes. It just won’t rise quite as high. But that subtle coconuty goodness is more that worth it. A trade off I don’t mind making at all! 🙂
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i want to try Honey Ridge Grilling Sauce (Hot)
What a beautiful pound cake. They look delicious! I’ll try it with ordinary Australian honey and maybe it will come out sort of okay. 🙂 I’m thinking a slice of this with some strawberries soaked in cointreau.
Honey Cremed Spiced looks like something interesting to try.