Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, lemon pound cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Lemon Pound Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Lemon Pound Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon pound cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Pound Cake:
- Prepare 1 3/4 c all purpose flour
- Take 1 1/4 c sugar
- Prepare 2 sticks butter, softened
- Take 5 eggs
- Make ready 1/3 c sour cream
- Prepare 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Get Zest from 3 lemons
- Get 3 tbsp lemon juice
- Take 1/2 tsp lemon extract
- Take 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 3/4 cup of blueberries or 3tbsp poppyseeds-optional*
- Get Lemon Simple Syrup
- Prepare 1/4 c sugar
- Take 1/4 c fresh lemon juice
- Prepare Vanilla Glaze
- Take 1/2 c powdered sugar
- Get 1 tbsp milk
- Take 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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