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Moist lemon pound cake with a delicious lemon glaze topped over the cake. This sweet lemon cake is the perfect spring or summer cake to bake. With a sweet lemon taste all though out the cake, it tastes like summer. Pound cake is a little more dense than regular cake, but is still moist and delicious. The added addition of lemon zest and lemon juice makes this cake the perfect summer themed dessert.
The cake batter is made like a regular cake batter, except with the addition of fresh lemon juice and lemon zest baked into the cake. The cake batter is baked in a 9-inch bundt cake pan that has been both greased and floured. After the cake has baked, let it cool in the cake pan for 15-20 minutes. Turn the cake upside down onto a large cake plate and let it cool completely before pouring the glaze on top. For the lemon glaze, in a medium bowl, combine powdered sugar with lemon juice and milk. If the glaze needs to be thinned, add a tablespoon or two of milk to thin. Pour the glaze over the cake and let set.
Lemon Pound Cake
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- zest of 2 lemons
- juice of 2 lemons
Ingredients for Lemon Glaze
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2-4 tablespoons milk, as needed to thin
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour a 9 or 10- inch bundt cake pan. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
- In a large bowl, with either a hand or stand mixer, beat softened butter with granulated sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs, milk, vanilla extract, lemon zest and lemon juice until smooth. Add the dry ingredients in three separate additions, beating after each until fully incorporated.
- Pour cake batter into the cake pan and bake for 50-55 minutes. Let cool completely. Turn cake out onto a large plate.
- For the lemon glaze, in a medium bowl, whisk together powdered sugar, lemon juice and milk. Pour glaze evenly over the cake.