Lemon Pound Cake

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  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 45mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    16
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    283
based on 34 ratings

A light and zesty cake, topped with lemon glaze. Lovely on its own or with a hot cup of tea. If you can get them, use Meyer lemons for a sweeter flavor.

recipe updated Feb 17, 2022

Ingredients

  • Unsalted butter icon
    Unsalted butter
    175 g
  • Granulated sugar icon
    Granulated sugar
    275 g
  • Egg icon
    Egg
    4
  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    300 g
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    ½ teaspoon
  • Baking powder icon
    Baking powder
    10 g
  • Milk icon
    Milk
    110 g
  • Vanilla extract icon
    Vanilla extract
    2 g
  • Lemon icon
    Lemon
    2
  • Powdered sugar icon
    Powdered sugar
    185 g

Tools

  • kCook icon Stand mixer
  • kCook icon Spatula
  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Whisk
  • kCook icon Cooling rack
  • kCook icon Large mixing bowl
  • kCook icon Medium bowl
  • kCook icon Loaf pan - 9"
  • kCook icon Medium bowl
  • kCook icon Small bowl

Step preview

  1. Pre-heat oven - 175°C
  2. Prepare 2 clean loaf pans
  3. Add unsalted butter and granulated sugar to a clean large mixing bowl
  4. Cream together until pale and light
  5. Add eggs to the butter-sugar mixture one by one while mixing until well combined
  6. Add all purpose flour, salt and baking powder to a clean medium bowl
  7. Whisk briefly until combined
  8. Transfer dry ingredients to batter
  9. Mix until combined
  10. Add milk and vanilla extract to a clean medium bowl
  11. Add lemon to the mixture and mix
  12. Transfer content of medium bowl to batter and mix
  13. Transfer batter to 2 loaf pans
  14. Bake until skewer tests clean - 45 min, 175°C
  15. Let cool
  16. Add powdered sugar to a clean small bowl
  17. Add lemon to the sugar
  18. Whisk vigorously until smooth
  19. Turn out cake onto cooling rack
  20. Spread icing onto the 2 cakes
  21. Leave cake until set
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