Meyer Lemon Pound Cake

13 ingredients
12 steps

Ingredients

  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 3/4 cups sugar
  • 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
  • 5 large eggs, room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 cup Meyer lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons Meyer lemon juice
  • 1/4 cup whole milk
  • 1 tablespoon Meyer lemon zest
  • 3/4 cup confectioners sugar

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and either grease and flour or spray with non-stick cooking spray a 10 cup bundt pan
  2. 2
    Whisk together 1/2 cup of lemon juice and the milk in a large liquid measuring cup
  3. 3
    In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
  4. 4
    In a large bowl attached to a stand mixer, beat the butter and sugars on medium high until light and creamy - about 5 minutes
  5. 5
    Beat the eggs, one at a time, on medium speed until combined. Add the vanilla extract.
  6. 6
    With the mixer on low, alternate between adding the flour mixture and the lemon juice mixture - starting and ending with the flour
  7. 7
    Mix in the lemon zest
  8. 8
    Add the batter to the greased bundt pan and bake for 50 - 60 minutes (mine takes exactly 50 minutes to bake)
  9. 9
    Let the cake cool in the pan for approximately 10 minutes then take it out of the pan and allow to cool on a cooling rack
  10. 10
    While the cake is cooling prepare the glaze. Wisk together the confectioners sugar and 2 T lemon juice
  11. 11
    When the cake is cool, apply as much of the glaze as you would like.
  12. 12
    *This recipe has been adapted from King Arthur Flour's Orange Pound Cake with Bourbon Glaze

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