Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lemon pound cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The rich taste of pound cake is balanced out with the zingy addition of lemon. Stir in lemon juice, zest and extract. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with sour cream. Combine sugar, flour, eggs, shortening, whole milk, vanilla extract, lemon extract, and baking powder in a large bowl; pour into the prepared pans.
Lemon Pound Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Lemon Pound Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon pound cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Pound Cake:
- Make ready 1 3/4 c all purpose flour
- Take 1 1/4 c sugar
- Prepare 2 sticks butter, softened
- Take 5 eggs
- Get 1/3 c sour cream
- Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare Zest from 3 lemons
- Make ready 3 tbsp lemon juice
- Take 1/2 tsp lemon extract
- Make ready 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Get 3/4 cup of blueberries or 3tbsp poppyseeds-optional*
- Prepare Lemon Simple Syrup
- Prepare 1/4 c sugar
- Take 1/4 c fresh lemon juice
- Get Vanilla Glaze
- Get 1/2 c powdered sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp milk
- Make ready 1/2 tsp vanilla or vanilla bean
- Get Pinch salt
Then, while the cake is still warm from the oven, I douse it with lemon syrup to further enhance the lemon flavor. This lemon cake is basically a regular pound cake recipe with a few additions to increase the flavor and soften the crumb. For this recipe, I added an extra egg yolk and sour cream, and replaced the all-purpose flour with bread flour to give more structure to the loaf and get a better rise. Lemon Pound Cake Recipe (Ultimate Lemon Cake Recipe) - This is the Best Lemon Pound Cake on the Internet!
Instructions to make Lemon Pound Cake:
- Preheat oven to 325 and lightly grease a 9x5 loaf pan with butter. Dust pan light with flour and set aside.
- In a bowl beat butter, sugar, lemon zest, lemon juice, and vanilla for 3 minutes until light and fluffy. Add sour cream until incorporated. Add eggs one at a time, mixing to combine after each addition.
- In another bowl whisk together flour, Baking powder and salt. Gradually add dry ingredients to wet ingredients. (Fold in blueberries or poppyseeds-optional). Toss blueberries lightly in flour before adding to batter.
- Bake 325 for 1 hour or until top is golden brown. Remove from oven and allow to cook for 20 mins. I’m a sauce pan, combine lemon juice and sugar. Once sugar has dissolved, allow to gently simmer for 2 minutes and remove from heat. Using a toothpick, poke cake lightly with holes all around cake. Brush syrup around top and sides of cake. Allow to cool for an hour before icing cake.
- Whisk together powder sugar vanilla bean, milk and salt. Slowly pour over cake and allow to sit 20 minutes to harden before serving.
- Ready to serve and ENJOY!
For this recipe, I added an extra egg yolk and sour cream, and replaced the all-purpose flour with bread flour to give more structure to the loaf and get a better rise. Lemon Pound Cake Recipe (Ultimate Lemon Cake Recipe) - This is the Best Lemon Pound Cake on the Internet! Tart, sweet, moist and filled with lemon flavor, you will adore this Lemon Cake Recipe with a secret ingredient for years to come! Beat in lemon juice and peel. Using rubber spatula, mix in dry ingredients.
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