Sour Cream Dulce de Leche Iced Pound Cake

Are you ready to bake?
Let’s get started!!!

Cream the butter and sugar together well.
I put the electric mixer on medium for 4 minutes.

The batter is somewhat fluffy…

And the sugar looks like sparkling diamonds
In a way it reminds me of the way snow sparkles in the sunshine.
I love snow.
I love this cake.

Add sour cream.

Pretty, huh?

Combine well.

In a separate bowl sift flour and baking soda.
Set it aside for a minute.

Crack all the eggs.
Turn the mixer on and keep it on.
Alternate between adding 1 egg and a little bit of the flour mixture,
mixing well after each addition.
The batter will be fluffy when it is thoroughly combined.

Add vanilla.
Mmmm….Vanilla smells so good.
It is warm and welcoming like home.

Add coconut and pecans.
Sorry the next couple pics aren’t up to par.
Guess I got too excited about baking the cake.
I didn’t even notice the pics were dark!
(rolling eyes)

Combine it well, but don’t beat it.

Butter the pan and then flour it well.
With the fancy shape of my pan, it would have been a catastrophe if the cake had stuck.
It didn’t because I butter and flour like a fiend.
LMBO
That stands for “Laughing My Butt Off”.
I say that a lot online.
I like laughing.

My pan is made of silicone, so I set it on a foiled lined baking sheet.
It helps me move it in and out of the oven without it squishing.
I love the silicone pans!
Yep, love, love, love them.

Isn’t the batter gorgeous.
I’m drooling.
I love batter.

Okay, now put the cake in the oven for a LONG time.

Since I had to wait soooooooo long for the cake to come out of the oven,
I made sure there was a little “pre-treat” for my tastebuds.
See the lovely chunk of batter, coconut and pecan on the beater?
Oh, oh, ooooh! So good!

Yep, I left some batter on the spatula too.
Do you know how my grandmother (Mam-Maw)
used to say, “spatula”?
She said, “Spatchla”.
I think of that almost every time I say spatula.
I say, “Spatch-u-la”.
How do you say it?
Okay, well the cake is cooking for a long time,
so I’ve got some lickin’ to do.

Finally the timer rang out to let me know that the cake was done.
Do you know how I could tell?
See the hole in the top?
I inserted a very thin serrated knife ALL the way through the cake.
When it came out clean, I knew the cake was done.

See the fluffy cake through the hole?
Peek in there and look at the fluffy moist cake.
Yummmm…..

The outside of the cake is crunchy and the inside is soft and fluffy
even though it is a heavy pound cake.
I’m sure you have no problem seeing all the coconut and pecans.
I didn’t wait for the cake to cool before I cut the slice.
I love warm, moist cake.

You can eat the cake like this and it is still delicious,
but the icing simply blows the flavor into another dimension.

So I poured and spread the Dulche de Leche icing on the cake.

I mixed some pecans with the homemade Dulce de Leche
and let it melt and ooze on the hot cake.

Each bite I can taste moist sour cream pound cake with
little bits of coconut and pecans.
Then my tongue feels the ooey gooey sweetness
of the homemade Dulce de Leche.

Just when I don’t think it can get any more exciting,
I can feel the crunchy outside of the cake.

An explosion of perfectly combined flavors fills my mouth.

Yes, yes, yes!
This cake tastes better than Meg Ryan’s restaurant scene
in the movie “When Harry Met Sally” sounds.
No, really.
De-lish-ous and ri-i-i-i-ich!
I’d say that the Sour Cream Dulce de Leche Iced Pound Cake is orgasmic,
but my mother and daughter read my blog.
Oops!
I said it, didn’t I?
Clean thoughts people.
(smile)