Orange Almond Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon double-acting baking powder 
• 0.5 teaspoon baking soda 
• 1 pound butter softened
• 6  eggs 
• 3 cups flour all-purpose sifted
• 0.3 cup half-and-half 
• 3 ounces marzipan 
• 0.3 cup milk 
• 0.3 cup orange juice 
• 3 cups sugar white

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• whisk
• wire rack
• toothpicks
• spatula

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch tube pan.
2. Whisk flour, baking powder, and baking soda together in a bowl.
3. Beat butter and sugar together in a bowl until creamy.
4. Add marzipan.
5. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat half-and-half into butter mixture.
6. Stir 1 cup of flour mixture into the butter mixture. Stir in milk.
7. Add another 1 cup flour mixture to the butter mixture and stir milk into mixture.
8. Add remaining flour mixture and stir in orange juice. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula and give batter a final mix.
9. Pour batter into prepared tube pan.
10. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, about 90 minutes.
11. Cool cake in the pan for 15 to 20 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.