Easy Four Ingredient Pound Cake Glaze Recipe | Julie Blanner (2024)

This incredibly easy cake glaze recipe requires just four staple ingredients and less than five minutes of time to make. It’s smooth, delightfully sweet, and easy to customize with a variety of extracts.

This is the perfect vanilla cake glaze that is perfect for adding to your favorite bundt cakes, angel food cakes, pound cakes, muffins and even doughnuts.

You’ll found countless ideas for where to use it! It’s such a great little recipe to keep in your back pocket… pretty soon you’ll be making it from memory! It’s that easy!

You know the saying, “the icing on the cake”? Well, it’s my belief that the icing is just as important, if not more important than the cake itself. This basic cake glaze recipe never disappoints!

One of the reasons I love using a glaze is that it is beautiful without any effort at all. Just make, warm and pour! It’s such an easy way to elevate your baked goods and add a hit of sweetness.

It really couldn’t be easier to make this yummy glaze! Let’s get started!

Pound Cake Glaze

It’s perfect to decorate cakes for friends and family, as well as occasion cakes.

What is the Difference Between Glaze and Icing?

It can be confusing, right? What’s the difference between these toppings… frosting, icing, glaze, and the list goes on!

Icing is quite a bit thinner than frosting, but then not as thin as glaze.

In this case, icing and glaze are quite similar. The difference is generally defined not by the ingredients, but by the final consistency. Glaze is liquid enough to be poured, whereas icing is generally spread on.

Ingredients and Substitutions

• Butter – Salted or unsalted, your preference.
• Powdered Sugar – Also known as confectioners sugar or icing powder. If you don’t have powdered sugar, you can puree granulated sugar in a food processor until soft and fluffy – read more at the link above.
• Vanilla Extract – Pure rather than imitation if possible. Even better? Make your own at that link!
• Heavy Cream – You can substitute milk if needed.

How to Make this Cake Glaze

1. Combine ingredients, beat on medium until smooth.
2. Warm in microwave 30 seconds to make it a pourable glaze for easy topping.

Tips

• Use Immediately – Use the glaze as soon as you’ve made it or it will harden.
• It’s easy to make this glaze in a stand mixer, but if you don’t have one, you can also beat it by hand with a spatula in a large bowl, just make sure everything is well combined with no lumps.
• For thinner glaze, add more heavy whipping cream. Use a tablespoon at a time until you get the consistency you’d like.
• Allow Baked Goods to Cool – Before glazing your cake, ensure that the cake has full cooled, or the glaze can run off of it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Serving Suggestions

This cake glaze recipe is perfect for topping pound cake, angel cake, bundt cake and even doughnuts! Try it on all of these baked goods:

• Homemade Baked Donuts
• Valentine Doughnuts
• Lemon Pound Cake Recipe
• Pumpkin Muffin Recipe
• Apple Pound Cake
• Biscuit Donuts
• Carrot Cake Muffins
• The Best Blueberry Bread
• Cinnamon Roll Bread

How to Store

• Room Temperature – You can store this cake glaze for up to three days at room temperature.
• Refrigerator – Store refrigerated in an airtight container for up to two weeks.
• Freezer – You can store this easy cake glaze in the freezer in an airtight container for up to three months. It will last even longer but will start to lose its fresh flavor and quality over time.