A delicate moist sour cream pound cake is adorned with fresh black velvet apricots and the floral accents of roses!

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Apricot Rose Pound Cake

Over at Blahnik Baker, I try to make easy, everyday desserts that are elegant for any celebration but once in a while I like experimenting with unique flavors. You know, beyond peanut butter and chocolate. Wait, once in a while really means very often. Like this red apricot rose pound cake, it’s such a wonderful combination of summer flavors. I love pound cakes because they are so moist and delicious but they can get boring at times. So I decided to jazz mine up with some fresh juicy red velvet apricots and floral rosewater.

Apricot Rose Pound Cake

This recipe is really easy to make your own. The base is a moist, dense and crumbly pound cake that you need in your repertoire. To change things up, you can use different fruits, flavored extracts or even melted chocolate. I used fresh apricots to fold into the batter and a tiny bit (a little goes a long way) of rosewater to add an essence of floral flavor. It’s a wonderful combination and brings a little summer to your cake. Enjoy this at your next summer gathering or a Sunday dinner with the family.

Apricot Rose Pound Cake

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Author: Zainab Storms, Blahnik Baker

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Ingredients

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Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup butter, softened to room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon rosewater
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1/2 cup sour cream (I used lite), at room temperature
2 medium black velvet apricots, chopped

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Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a 6-cup bundt pan with baking spray (or butter and flour) and set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and baking soda.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter and sugar on high speed for 10 minutes until very light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla extract and rosewater. Add in eggs one at a time, mixing 1 minute after each addition and scraping down the side of the bowl as needed. Reduce speed to low and add in the sour cream and flour mixture alternately, starting and ending with the flour. Mix until just combined. Using a rubber spatula, fold in the apricots into the batter.
Spoon batter into prepared pan and smooth top. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until cake is golden brown and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes in pan before removing carefully from pan. Let cool. Serve with some powdered sugar and fresh apricots.

Notes

To make this cake GLUTEN-FREE, use Cup4Cup flour (http://www.cup4cup.com/)
To make this cake DAIRY-FREE, replace butter with creamy virgin coconut oil, and the sour cream with coconut yogourt.

Thank you so much for having me today Emily! I hope you all enjoy this summer recipe soon!

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Zainab Storms

Recipe Contributor, blogs at Blahnik Baker

I’m a 29-year old baking enthusiast, recipe developer, food photographer, shoe addict and PhD student living in Central NY. As a newly wed who loves baking and cooking for her family, I enjoy creating easy, elegant recipes to share with my readers. When I’m not in the kitchen baking or window-shopping for shoes, I love taking long walks at the park, reading, watching soccer and picnicking with the family.

Apricot Rose Pound Cake