Instant Pot Almond Pound Cake
Instant Pot Almond Pound Cake is easy to make pound cake recipe using your pressure cooker. This is the perfect cake for any season. No oven required.
Servings 12
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 1-1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp table salt
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tbsp almond extract
- 2-1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 cups water
Instructions
- Grease and flour a 7″ tube pan and set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar together.
- Add baking powder and salt. Mix well.
- Add eggs. Beat well.
- Mix in almond extract.
- Slowly add flour, scraping down the bowl several times.
- Mix in sour cream.
- Spread into prepared pan and tap on the counter to settle any air pockets that may be present.
- Add water to the pressure cooker and place the trivet in the bottom of the insert.
- Cover pan tightly with foil and poke a hole in the open part of the tube.
- Use a foil sling to place the pan into the pressure cooker.
- Lock the lid and cook on manual for 60 minutes.
- Natural release then remove from the pressure cooker.
- Cool in pan 10 minutes then remove and cool on a wire rack another 10 minutes before serving with a scoop of ice cream or whipped cream and berries or chocolate sauce.
Notes
*This recipe was created using the 6-quart instant pot. If you are using a different size pot or a different pressure cooker brand entirely, cooking times may be off by a couple of minutes.
**Live at High Altitude - Because water boils at a lower temperature at high altitudes, and pressure cooking requires water to boil in order to work, some foods may need a little more cooking time. When pressure cooking at high altitudes you want to make sure to add 5 percent to your cook time for every 1,000 feet above 2,000 feet elevation. For example, when we lived at 4,000+ feet I would add 10 percent to my cook time. For a recipe that called for 20-minutes of cooking time, I would then cook for 22 minutes. When pressure cooking, 1-2 minutes can make all the difference in a recipe, unlike when cooking by traditional methods.