Lemon Pound Cake Recipe
The best lemon pound cake recipe full of lemon juice and lemon zest! So moist, and topped with a delicious lemony glaze.
Ingredients
Cake
- 1 cup butter softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 tbsp lemon zest freshly grated
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
Glaze
- 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1-2 tbsp milk
Instructions
- Heat oven to 325°F and then you will grease and flour a bundt pan; set aside
- In a large bowl, combine sugar and butter at medium speed, be sure to scrape bowl often, until creamy. Continue beating, adding 1 egg at a time, until well mixed.
- In a medium bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- On low speed alternately add the flour mixture and then the buttermilk and scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Add lemon zest and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Continue beating until well mixed.
- Spoon batter into prepared pan. Bake 55-65 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes. Invert onto serving plate; cool completely.
- Stir together powdered sugar, 2 teaspoons lemon juice and enough milk for desired glazing consistency in small bowl. Drizzle over cooled cake.
Nutrition
Calories: 458kcalCarbohydrates: 70gProtein: 5gFat: 17gSaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 97mgSodium: 322mgPotassium: 99mgSugar: 46gVitamin A: 575IUVitamin C: 1.5mgCalcium: 45mgIron: 1.7mg
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