Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, lemon pound cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a 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 quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Lemon Pound Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
The rich taste of pound cake is balanced out with the zingy addition of lemon. 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. I was craving lemon pound cake and this was the PERFECT recipe!
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon pound cake using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Pound Cake:
- Get 1 3/4 c all purpose flour
- Make ready 1 1/4 c sugar
- Get 2 sticks butter, softened
- Take 5 eggs
- Get 1/3 c sour cream
- Take 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Get Zest from 3 lemons
- Get 3 tbsp lemon juice
- Get 1/2 tsp lemon extract
- Get 1/2 tsp vanilla
- Get 3/4 cup of blueberries or 3tbsp poppyseeds-optional*
- Prepare Lemon Simple Syrup
- Make ready 1/4 c sugar
- Get 1/4 c fresh lemon juice
- Get Vanilla Glaze
- Prepare 1/2 c powdered sugar
- Get 1 tbsp milk
- Prepare 1/2 tsp vanilla or vanilla bean
- Get Pinch salt
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Steps 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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