Lemon Pound Cake
Serves
16
Total Time
1hrs 45mins
Calories
283
A light and zesty cake, topped with lemon glaze. Lovely on it's own or with a hot cup of tea. If you can get them, use Meyer lemons for a sweeter flavour.
- Unsalted butter
175 g (about ¾ cup)room temperature
- Granulated sugar
275 g (about 1 ¼ cups)
- Egg
4 (about 200 g)
- Plain flour
300 g (about 2 ¼ cups)
- Salt
½ teaspoon (about 3 g)
- Baking powder
10 g (about 2 teaspoons)
- Milk
110 g (about ½ cup)
- Vanilla extract
2 g (about ½ teaspoon)
- Lemon
2 (about 116 g)juice of, zest of
- Powdered sugar
185 g (about 1 ½ cups)
INGREDIENTS
- 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 plain 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 mixture 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
METHOD
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