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🍋 Lemon Pound Cake 🔨

So, I asked, "Hey, Google what's a pound cake?" and was illumined with:
"Pound cake is like the little black dress of dessert... traditional pound cake recipes call for equal weights of flour, sugar, eggs, and butter..."

Apparently, back in the olden days a pound of each ingredient is required. Thus, "pound" cake.  Thankfully, it's not quite what I imagined it to be - pounding the wits out of the dough is out of the equation (exit cue: Thor with his mighty Mjolnir 🔨💨. buhbye).

Thus, continuing still with the lemon saga in our casa, we tried the lemon pound cake.

🍋 Ingredients - dry
1 + 2/3  all-purpose flour, sift
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 cup (180g) sugar
1 lemon zest

🍋 Ingredients - wet
1/2 cup melted butter (~113g) or vegetable oil)
1/2 cup (120 mL) milk
3 eggs
180 ml yogurt (or 1/2 cup sour cream and 1/3 cup lemon juice)
1/4 tsp vanilla

🍋 Steps - cake
0 - pre-heat the oven to 175C (350F) for 10 mins.
1 - Whisk dry ingredients in a huge bowl.
2 - Whisk wet ingredients in another bowl.
3 - Add wet to dry.
4 - Mix until combined (do not overmix the batter)
5 - Bake for 45 mins at 175F.
     Apply egg wash at 35 mins for a lemony golden shine.
     Watch for the edges pulling away;
     do the stick test, toothpick should come out clean.
6 - Take out of the oven and rest for 10 mins.

🍋 Steps - glaze
1 tbsp sugar
1/2 cup lemon
Whisk together until gooey set.
Drizzle over the lemon pound cake.

Here's our 1st take - drum roll pounding for the pound cake! 🥁🔨Although a bit on the dense side (because I opted for half-tsp less baking soda than what I listed above😜. I will use the 2tsp next time), it was perfect in bite-size portions.


Learned from: 
Charlene Bakes  ✅

Inspired by: 
Preppy Kitchen

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