Pound Cake Sundaes

Pound Cake Sundaes

Poundcake Sundae

With thanks to the Allman/McMurtry family for this wonderful recipe.
Serves: 1
Prep time: 15 minutes, plus one hour and twenty minutes to make the pound cake

Ingredients

  • 3 scoops of vanilla ice cream
  • ¼ cup fresh raspberries
  • 1/4 cup fresh blueberries
  • 2 tablespoons Hershey’s chocolate sauce
  • 2 slices of pound cake, edges trimmed

For the raspberry sauce:

Ingredients

  • 1 cup frozen raspberries
  • ¼ cup sugar


To make the raspberry sauce:

Directions

  1. In a small saucepan, cook the frozen raspberries and sugar until well combined.
  2. Push the raspberry mixture through a sieve to remove the raspberry seeds. Allow sauce to cool.
  3. Place pound cake at bottom of serving bowl.
  4. Scoop ice cream into bowl.
  5. Drizzle raspberry sauce around ice cream, and then drizzle chocolate sauce over it all.
  6. Sprinkle blueberries and raspberries on sundae and serve immediately.

Grandmother McMurtry’s Pound Cake

Ingredients

  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 cup Crisco
  • 6 eggs, separated
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
  • 3 cups flour
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup buttermilk

Directions

  1. Blend sugar and shortening in mixing bowl. Add egg yolks one at a time; blend after each.
  2. Add vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together and add to first mixture, alternating with buttermilk. (Begin and end with dry ingredients.) Beat egg whites until stiff and carefully fold into the mixture.
  3. Pour batter into greased and floured tube pan.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
  5. Be sure the top of the cake is firm before removing from oven.
  6. Cool in pan for ten minutes before removing. Turn cake topside up.
    Poundcake Sundae in mold
    Poundcake Sundae in mold
    Poundcake Sundae in oven
  7. Keeps for one week and can be frozen.

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