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I adore this little lady by the name of Amanda.
Amanda has created this fun little club called the Secret Recipe Club.
It’s a fun little crapshoot.
You sign up and you get randomly assigned another blog from which to pull a recipe, make it and then re-blog it. It can be easy peasy, challenging, frustrating, fun, difficult, but most of all fun
I decided to sign up for the June/July challenge and I was assigned the blog: Random Acts of Food Princess Jay, as she’s known has an obvious love for all things Italian and good home cooked food — how could I not adore her? She ends every post with Tutti Mangia, which from google I learned roughly translates into “Each one of you eat”
Good advice, I’d say.
After a bit of scrolling, I came across a Citrus Pound Cake with Orange Sauce recipe that seemed perfect for summer.
We omitted the orange sauce, but if you have access to 12 blood oranges check out her recipe and try it!
Made with lemon and orange zests, eggs, buttermilk, sugar and flour, this cake just appealed to me.
I haven’t made a pound cake since before Nathan and I were married, 10 + years ago, way back in my restaurant management days.
In May, I bought a Microplane Zester
If you’ve never made a pound cake, never whipped egg whites into peak stages; I’d like to direct you towards this post on one of my favorite blogs – Baking Bites
This cake is dense, moist, delicious, bursting with citrus flavor and pretty easy to make. My kids loved it.
Serve with fresh orange and lemon slices or topped with homemade whipped cream. Beware of children turning the oven off mid-cooking. This can create havoc in the oven, just saying.
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 C all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 C sugar + 1/4 C sugar
- 10 Tbsp butter, softened
- 4 oz Cream cheese, softened
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 3 large eggs
- 1/2 C buttermilk
- 1/4 C orange juice (no pulp or freshly squeezed if you can rock that)
- 2 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice (this can't be faked)
- The whites of 3 large eggs (save the yolks for scrambled eggs)
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 325
- Spray a 10" bundt pan with baking spray, dust with flour and then spray again
- In a larger mixing cup/bowl measure out 2 1/4 C flour ( do not pack the measuring cups, spoon the flour into them and shake to level)
- Into the flour, mix the baking powder and salt; set aside
- In a large mixing bowl, combine butter, 1 1/2 C sugar and cream cheese at medium speed for about 7 minutes
- In a small bowl, combine the buttermilk, 1/4 C orange juice and lemon juice. Alternately add the flour and the buttermilk mixture to the creamed butter mixture. Begin and end with the flour mixture.
- Place 3 large egg whites in a bowl and beat with a mixer at high speed until soft peaks form a tutorial on egg white peaking can be found here
- Add in 1/4 C sugar, 1 Tbsp at a time until soft peaks form. Gently fold the egg white mixture into the batter, 1/3 C at a time.
- Spoon batter into the bundt pan.
- Bake at 325 for 1 hour to 1 hour 20 minutes, or until a dry spaghetti noodle poked into the cake comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, remove from pan and then cool completely on a wire rack.
If you’re here for Mouthwatering Mondays – Welcome Back! Here are a few of my favorites from last week’s linky:
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Lisa~~ - YUM, looks delish!
I’d love for you to check out my SRC recipe this month: Holy Guacamole.
Lisa~~
Cook Lisa Cook
Paleo Pancakes with Coconut Flour | A Mom On A Mission . . . . . . to nurture and nourish her family - [...] I am sharing this recipe at Melt in Your Mouth Monday, Mangia Monday, and Mouthwatering Monday. [...]
April@The 21st Century Housewife - Oh wow, what a lot of great recipe inspiration with both of these linkys! Your citrus pound cake looks and sounds so good. I love citrus fruit in pound cake. I’ve shared my Mom’s blueberry muffin recipe with Mouthwatering Monday. Thank you for hosting!
carolinaheartstrings - Great party! Your pound cake looks fantastic. I linked some great grilled fruit today. Come on over and check it out!
Allison @ Alli 'n Son - Oh dear, this cake looks perfect. I can practically taste it!
Kristia@Family Balance Sheet - I love pound cake and this sounds like a yummy summer dessert.
I have been grilling fruit all summer and today I linked up Grilled Pineapple with Homemade Whipped Cream. thanks for the link-up.
Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake - [...] Indulgences Sunday * Robyn at Add a Pinch for Mingle Monday * Rachel at A Southern Fairytale for Mouthwatering Monday (Citrus Pound [...]
Maya@Foodiva's Kitchen - What a sunny-flavored pound cake! Great recipe choice from your assigned blog.
Philadelphia Butter Cake | Dense cake with a sweet, rich, buttery topping | The Misadventures of Mrs. B - [...] with Sumo’s Sweet Stuff, A Southern Fairytale & Skip To My Lou – come check out the amazing stuff going on there! Blog this! Bookmark on [...]
Mrs. Jen B - Eek! I linked up to the wrong linky at first! My apologies. That’s what I get for being in a hurry (and for doing this at work…!).
That cake…mmm. I can practically taste it. It looks so dense and moist. Mouthwatering!
Rachel - Hope you enjoy! It’s definitely a lot of links! I hope you find some new inspiration and maybe even some yummy new blogs, maybe you’ll sign up and try it some month?
Rachel - I LOVE grilled fruit! YUMMY, thank you!
Rachel - It was delicious! I think mine could have cooked longer, but with the oven having been turned off by a certain 4 yo…… {sigh} Both kids are having a slice for breakfast right now
Muffin Monday – Banana Cinnamon Whole Wheat Muffins | Talking Dollars and Cents - [...] My Meatless Mondays, Melt in Your Mouth Monday, Midnight Maniac Meatless Mondays, Mangia Monday, Mouthwatering Mondays, Make A Food ‘e’ Friend Monday,Tempt My Tummy Tuesday, Tasty Tuesday, Tuesdays at the Table, [...]
Rachel - YAY for grilled fruit! This is very very yummy and my kids loved helping me!
Rachel - Thanks! She had lots of recipes to choose from, but this one just spoke to me
Rachel - LOL
Good morning! It’s definitely Monday, isn’t it? 
Lin - What a great link up! I love all the recipes & that pound cakes looks/sounds absolutely amazing.
In the Box — CSA Week 13 {Summer Squash Lasagna} | Jax House - [...] on Mouthwatering Monday This entry was posted in Kitchen and tagged CSA, Recipes, Tomato Mountain Farm. Bookmark the [...]
Bacon Tomato Cheese Dip & our 4th of July Family Tradition! | Creative Kitchen - [...] Fight Back Friday, Finer Things Friday, Friday Potluck, Fun with Food Friday & Foodie Friday, Mouthwatering Monday, Monday Mania, Mangia Mondays and Melt in Your Mouth [...]
thepsychobabble - The re-blogging recipes thingy, that’s a pretty cool idea. Might have to check that out:)
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Laura in Texas - Yum!! I can’t wait to try this. I put in a citrus orchard this spring to go with the pecan grove and will have off the tree blood oranges and satsumas in a few months. Definitely using them to try this out! Thank you!!
JeNae - The pound cake looks delicious-and I can totally taste the orange flavoring. So I noticed, when I clicked on the egg-white link, it took me to Baking Bites {http://bakingbites.com}….not Our Best Bites {http://www.ourbestbites.com/}.
France - Pound Cake is one of my favorite desserts! Looks so summery and delightful. No shortage of recipes to try this week!!!
amanda @ fake ginger - There’s nothing I like more than pound cake! This one looks extra delicious!
Beth - This looks incredible. I’ll be bookmarking to try it out!
Bibi - The secret recipe club idea sounds like so much fun….your cake looks delish and summery
Thank you for hosting….I am sharing today my Summer Low Calorie Potato Salad
Patty - Your citrus pound cake looks divine! I just linked my microwave potato chips. Thanks for hosting!
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Jo - Your pound cake looks amazing! I made one for last months SRC, now I want pound cake again!
Kim - Liv Life - Rachel, what a wonderful job you did on this cake! I just screams summer. Thanks for your comment on our post, it was the first comment I read today and you made my day! We LOVE your corn salad and will think of you each and every time we serve it. I’m so glad to have met you!
Marla - I love pound cake & the citrus adds a very fun flavor twist! Fun being in the SRC with you
Kate - You found my weakness…pound cake. I don’t believe that I have met one that I didn’t like! This sounds scrumptious! SRC is fun! I like the entry you selected!!
Barbara @ Barbara Bakes - A gorgeous pound cake. I could fall in love with this one.
Shelby - This looks wonderful. I wish blood oranges were easier to come by!
Tasha - My Homemade Happiness - Beautiful cake! And so many wonderful links to check out!!! Thanks!
BigFatBaker - This sounds fabulous. I have been loving citrus this summer. Great recipe idea!
Rachel - ACK, thank you! Both are amongst my favorite blogs and I frequently confuse them when directing people! Thank you for letting me know that I had bungled once again
TidyMom - oooh, I LOVE pound cake and this sounds fabulous!!
I was busy yesterday and didn’t get to link up……but I don’t see the linky? did it disappear? lol
Rachel - Cheryl, it apparently removed itself from my blog overnight {Sigh}
That happened twice yesterday. Thank you for letting me know! It’s back up
Amanda - That pound cake looks so good!! Love the lemon and orange zest! Sounds perfect for summer!
Michelle @ Honest & Truly! - Yum! That looks delicious. We did a similar lemon cake when I was in Italy that I need to post soon. This week was the orechiette we made though… I’m soooo wanting a blood orange cake right now though
Rachel - Oh Michelle, YUM! I’m loving your stories and recipes from Italy, I want to go so badly!!!
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BreAna {Sugar and Spice and All Things Iced} - Yum!! This looks so delicious! What a fun club!! I am brand new to your blog this week and I am excited to follow your great posts. I linked my Root Beer Ice Cream. Thanks for hosting.
Foodness Gracious - I love all things citrus and this looks evil (in a totally nice way) I need some now with my coffee…
Thanks for sharing and will surely be checking out the rest of your great blog…
Anne @ Quick and Easy Cheap and Healthy - I haven’t made a pound cake in ages, either. This one sounds yummy!
Amy @ A Little Nosh - Mmm…sounds delicious! I don’t think I’ve ever made a pound cake, if you can believe that.
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