Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, lemon pound cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lemon Pound Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Lemon Pound Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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:
- Prepare 1 3/4 c all purpose flour
- Get 1 1/4 c sugar
- Make ready 2 sticks butter, softened
- Prepare 5 eggs
- Take 1/3 c sour cream
- Take 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1/2 tsp salt
- Make ready Zest from 3 lemons
- Take 3 tbsp lemon juice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp lemon extract
- Prepare 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 3/4 cup of blueberries or 3tbsp poppyseeds-optional*
- Take Lemon Simple Syrup
- Prepare 1/4 c sugar
- Take 1/4 c fresh lemon juice
- Take Vanilla Glaze
- Prepare 1/2 c powdered sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp milk
- Make ready 1/2 tsp vanilla or vanilla bean
- Get Pinch salt
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.
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