Brown Sugar Pound Cake With Creamy Warm Brown Sugar Glaze - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup butter, softened (no substitutes)
    1 cup dark brown sugar, packed
    1 cup white sugar
    1 tablespoon vanilla
    5 large eggs
    3 cups flour
    1/2 teaspoon baking powder
    1/2 teaspoon baking soda
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    1 cup half-and-half cream (or use full-fat milk)
    GLAZE
    1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
    1/2 cup white sugar
    1/2 cup whipping cream, unwhipped
    1/2 cup butter (no substitutes)
    1 tablespoon vanilla
Preparation
    Set oven to 325 dregrees fahrenheit.
    Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan.
    In a bowl, using an elecric mixer on medium speed, beat the butter with dark brown sugar, white sugar and vanilla for about 3 minutes.
    Add in eggs and beat until well blended.
    In a bowl mix together the flour with baking powder, baking soda and salt.
    Add to the creamed mixture alternating with the half and half cream or full-fat milk.
    Transfer the batter to prepared tube pan.
    Bake for about 1 hour and 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
    Cool in pan for 10 minutes; remove from pan; cool completey on wire rack.
    To make the glaze; in a heavy saucepan cook both sugars with whipping cream and butter over medium heat, stirring constantly until the butter melts and the sugars have dissolved.
    Increase the heat and bring to a boil; cook stirring constantly for about 3 minutes or until slightly thickened; stir in vanilla.
    Cool slightly.
    Drizzle the warm glaze over pound cake slices.

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