There’s nothing like an old family recipe to take an ordinary ice cream sundae and turn it into a REAL dessert. This recipe from Dallas has been in the Allman family for over 100 years. It’s a good west Texas farm recipe from the land of tumbleweeds, cattle, and oil wells. Amy Allman Dean, from whom I got this recipe, worked with me at the White House, and our families have been friends ever since.
Amy’s grandmother, Cora Amy McMurtry, was part of the McMurtry family of Graham, Texas, which also includes Larry McMurtry, who produced some of the most popular books about the state that have ever been written.
It seemed fitting that for Veterans Day the sundae should sport flag colors. I used raspberries and blueberries, and made a quick raspberry sauce to pour over the vanilla ice cream. But what would a sundae be without chocolate? There’s a bit of chocolate syrup on it for good measure – it’s especially good on the pound cake base.
Pound Cake Sundaes
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
- In a small saucepan, cook the frozen raspberries and sugar until well combined.
- Push the raspberry mixture through a sieve to remove the raspberry seeds. Allow sauce to cool.
- Place pound cake at bottom of serving bowl.
- Scoop ice cream into bowl.
- Drizzle raspberry sauce around ice cream, and then drizzle chocolate sauce over it all.
- 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
- Blend sugar and shortening in mixing bowl. Add egg yolks one at a time; blend after each.
- 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.
- Pour batter into greased and floured tube pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
- Be sure the top of the cake is firm before removing from oven.
- Cool in pan for ten minutes before removing. Turn cake topside up.
- Keeps for one week and can be frozen.
