Create a colorful and delicious treat for the family to eat with this Funfetti Pound Cake recipe. It’s festive, flavorful, and perfect to serve for breakfast or dessert, whichever you prefer!
Glazed Funfetti Pound Cake Recipe
Funfetti pound cake is a combination of a classic pound cake and loads of sprinkles. It has a unique taste with the perfect glaze on top to enhance its naturally delicious flavor.
The best part – It’s not a difficult baked treat to make! If you’re ready to get busy in the kitchen, grab the ingredients needed to make this pound cake and get started.
Note: This recipe is one of those few exceptions on our site that has more than 10 ingredients. We try to keep things VERY easy around here, and limiting ingredients and time spent is one of our favorite ways. That being said, this recipe is too delicious to leave out of our recipe box! It’s an exception that is so flavorful and worth the extra ingredients if you have the time and resources to make it.
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How to Make Funfetti Pound Cake with Glaze
- Combine your flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Cream your butter and sugar together until it becomes light and airy.
- Add your eggs one by one, mixing lightly to incorporate the yolk.
- Add your vanilla and almond extract and then add half of your flour, the sour cream, and milk.
- Add the rest of the flour and combine without overmixing.
- Fold in the colorful sprinkles.
- Spoon into the prepared baking dish.
- Set it on the center rack in the oven and bake for 60 minutes.
- After letting it cool down, you can add the glaze on top.
Funfetti is the trademarked name for confetti cake coined by Pillsbury in 1989. Confetti cake is a vanilla cake with rainbow sprinkles. Now, funfetti has expanded to include any vanilla-flavored dessert with sprinkles.
Pound cake got its name from the ratio of the ingredients. The original pound cake had one pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour.
If you don’t have any sour cream, feel free to use an equal amount of plain yogurt or Greek yogurt.
Recipe Tips and Tricks
- Make sure you’re not overmixing the batter! You don’t want to mix it too much because it can impact the texture of the pound cake.
- You can always add more rainbow sprinkles to the batter if you’d like. Just make sure it doesn’t affect your batter.
- If you want to add an extra touch to the pound cake, be sure to add some sprinkles on top of the Funfetti Pound Cake after the glaze.
Funfetti pound cake is a great way to jazz up traditional pound cake. The sprinkles add a colorful touch to this decadent dessert. This pound cake also makes a great grab-n-go breakfast!
If you make this recipe be sure to leave us a comment or rating. Enjoy!
Funfetti Pound Cake Recipe
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 1⅔ cups all-purpose flour 200 grams
- 1 teaspoon baking powder 4 grams
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter 226 grams, room temperature (2 sticks)
- 1 cup granulated sugar 200 grams
- 4 large eggs 200 grams, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 4 grams
- ½ teaspoon almond extract 2 grams
- ¼ cup sour cream 57 grams
- ¼ cup whole milk 57 grams
- ½ cup rainbow sprinkles 96 grams
For the Glaze
- 2 cups powdered sugar 226 grams, sifted
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 4 grams
- ¼ cup whole milk 57 grams
Equipment
- Kitchen Scale (optional)
- 9×5-inch Loaf Pan
- Hand Mixer (optional)
- Stand Mixer (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Line a 9×5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper and spray with nonstick spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt together. Set aside.1⅔ cups all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- Use a hand or stand mixer to cream the butter and sugar together until light and airy in texture, about 2 minutes.1 cup unsalted butter, 1 cup granulated sugar
- Add the eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition to incorporate the yolk. Add the vanilla and almond extracts.4 large eggs, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, ½ teaspoon almond extract
- Stir in half of the flour mixture, followed by the sour cream and milk. Add the remaining flour mixture and mix until just combined.¼ cup sour cream, ¼ cup whole milk
- Gently fold in the sprinkles.½ cup rainbow sprinkles
- Transfer the batter to the prepared loaf pan. Smooth the top into an even layer.
- Bake for 55-60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean and the top of the cake springs back when touched.
- Let the cake cool for 10 minutes in the pan before removing and transferring to a cooling rack.
- While the cake cools, make the glaze. Whisk all of the ingredients together in a bowl until smooth.2 cups powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, ¼ cup whole milk
- Drizzle the icing over the cake and allow to set before slicing and serving.
Notes
- Make sure you’re not overmixing the batter! You don’t want to mix it too much because it can impact the texture of the pound cake.
- You can always add more rainbow sprinkles to the batter if you’d like. Just make sure it doesn’t affect your batter.
- If you want to add an extra touch to the pound cake, be sure to add some sprinkles on top of the Funfetti Pound Cake after the glaze.
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