Pink Funfetti Pound Cake

This pretty-in-Pink Funfetti Pound Cake gets its pinkish color from sanding saccharide sprinkles instead of nutrient coloring, as well as so gets fifty-fifty prettier alongside confetti sprinkles folded inward the batter!

I'm e'er total of what I telephone outcry upwards 'I wonders.' As inward like, 'I wonder what would come about if I set ____ inward this ______.' Or like, 'I wonder how it would gustation if I combined ______ as well as ______.' I approximate that's why I similar cooking as well as recipe evolution so much. I larn to constantly exam out my 'I wonders.'

I larn to exam out 'I wonders' inward my classroom, too. Like when my petty s graders as well as I were doing scientific discipline experiments alongside solids, liquids, as well as gases this calendar week as well as nosotros were creating a gas alongside vinegar as well as baking soda ... so watching the gas created blow upwards a balloon. And I had an 'I wonder' close whether or non all liquids as well as baking soda exercise a gas when they combine ... so I asked them to come upwards up alongside a conception for how nosotros could exam that out.

As I had hoped, they of course of report came upwards alongside the conception of combining baking soda alongside the other liquids nosotros had in that place ... water, oil, as well as nutrient coloring ... to come across what would happen. One squad of students, however, also had an 'I wonder' close soda. They were so enthusiastic close wondering what would come about if baking soda as well as well, regular soda mixed together! It was so cute.

And I couldn't resist.

I exactly had to exam out their 'I wonder.'

So I went to the vending machine, bought a soda, as well as nosotros set their 'I wonder' to the test. {Hee, hee.}

And allow me exactly tell ya, inward illustration you're curious, ... baking soda as well as 'regular' soda do exercise a gas when they combine. Quite a rigid gas, too. It exploded our balloon! And nosotros may or may non convey gotten soda all over the carpet. {Shhhhhhhh ... don't tell our principal, okay?}

And that's how this Pink Funfetti Pound Cake came to be, too.

Through an 'I wonder.'

See, I wondered if you lot could exercise a colored cake yesteryear replacing business office of the granulated saccharide inward the recipe alongside a fleck of colored sanding sugar.

You know, this materials ... that nosotros sprinkle on cookies as well as things equally sugary glitter ...

Well, I discovered that yes, ... yes, you lot can!

Now I know you lot tin flaming only add together nutrient coloring to batter to brand things colors. But I'm never real proficient at achieving the color I wishing that way. I wanted to come across if I could larn a hue closed to the hues I beloved so much inward my favorite sanding saccharide sprinkles yesteryear using them inward the batter. And you lot can! The color comes out a fleck lighter as well as non equally intense equally the sprinkles ... but correct on job alongside the hue!

Love it.

And using the sanding saccharide didn't modify the texture of the pound cake. Which I was a petty worried about. Not certain if it would operate inward a cake alongside a lighter crumb, though ... hmmmmmm, may demand to cheque that out sometime.

Then I decided to brand my pretty-in-pink pound cake 1 pace prettier alongside these ...

... confetti sprinkles!

The bigger disc kind.

So they'd demonstrate upwards actually proficient as well as pretty inward the baked cake. Like brilliant petty spots of fun!

Aren't the brilliant petty spots of fun pretty? I intend so!

So I decided to add together some to a greater extent than spots of fun to the compass of the cake. Ahhh, fifty-fifty prettier.

And all because of an 'I wonder.'

So, what are you 'I wondering' today?? I tell larn ahead as well as try it!! It exactly may work.

Pink Funfetti Pound Cake

Source: A Tracey original, based on my mother-in-law's Classic Vanilla Pound Cake

(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

2 3/4 c. granulated sugar
1/4 c. pink sanding sugar/sprinkles {substitute other colors, if desired}
1/2 lb. unsalted butter {2 sticks}
2 T. Crisco shortening
6 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3 c. all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 c. whole milk {2% milk also industrial plant fine}
3 T. confetti disc sprinkles
1/2 c. confectioners sugar
A petty fleck less than 1 T. water
Additional confetti disc sprinkles, equally desired

Directions

Cream the granulated sugar, colored sanding sugar, butter, as well as Crisco alongside an electrical mixer, close 3-4 minutes.
Add eggs as well as vanilla; shell alongside an electrical mixer close 10-15 minutes. Be certain to shell for the total time.
Combine the flour as well as baking powder. With the mixer on low, add together flour mixture as well as milk, alternately, to the creamed saccharide as well as eggs mixture. Mix afterwards each improver until exactly combined. Gently flexure inward iii tablespoons confetti sprinkles.
Pour batter into a subway scheme pan that has been generously sprayed alongside non-stick baking spray {or buttered & floured}. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until a toothpick inserted inward the compass comes out clean. Cool close a 1/2 an hr inward the pan; take away cake from pan.
Whisk together confectioners saccharide as well as H2O until smooth. Drizzle over cake. Immediately piece glaze is soundless wet, sprinkle alongside additional confetti sprinkles equally desired.

Enjoy!

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