LEMON POUND CAKE
- 1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened
- 1/2 cup butter flavoring shortening.
- 3 cups of sugar
- 5 eggs
- 3/4 cup of sour cream.
- Add 1 teaspoon lemon flavoring
- add 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- LEMON GLAZE
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoon lemon juice
- Spring Color Sprinkles optional
Instructions
- With an electric mixer, cream together 1 cup butter (2 sticks), softened and 1/2 cup butter flavoring shortening.
- Add 3 cups of sugar to the creamed butter and shortening. This is an important step. Cream these ingredients for 3 to 5 minutes until it is nice and fluffy. See Picture.
- Add 5 eggs one at a time just until the egg yolks disappear. About 1 to 2 minutes.
- Blend in 3/4 cup of sour cream.
- Add 1 teaspoon lemon flavoring
- Next, add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon baking powder to the mixture.
- Alternate the 3 cups all-purpose flour with 3/4 cup buttermilk just until blended.
- Add 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- PREHEAT OVEN 325 degrees
- Bake 325 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Allow the cake to completely cool about 20 to 30 minutes.
- FOR THE GLAZE:
- Mix the powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Drizzle on cake after it cools.
Love pound cake and this Lemon Pound Cake recipe sounds yummy! Thanks for sharing
This sounds delicious and I have to share with my sister. She makes a homemade pound cake that is just so good and moist and I am sure she will want to try this one. It sounds fabulous!
We love lemon cakes too!
Tami
This looks really good, I am going to have to make it. I pinned it & saved it to Yumprint, so I have a copy of the recipe. Thanks for the recipe.
I am a pound cake fan! I will have to try this out. THanks!
I Love pound cake. I have never had lemon pound cake though. Would love to try this recipe out.
I absolutely love lemon pound cake! In fact we bought one from walmart yesterday because I was craving it and didn’t have the time to make it…but I’m willing to bet it tastes much better homemade! Thanks for sharing!
I like lemon everything and this sounds good. Will have to see if my wife will make this for me.
Lemon is one of my favorite flavors for any dessert, so this sounds great to me!
This sounds so good will have to copy this one I love any thing with Lemmon in it have some lemons I need to use so might try this cake this week thank you for the recipe