Josh's Recipes I II

Lemon Cake

by preppy kitchen

a sliced lemon cake

Ingredients

Pound Cake

  • 2 ½ cups (300g) flour
  • 1 ½ tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup span (227g) butter, unsalted
  • 1 ¼ (250g) cup sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 3 tbs lemon juice
  • 1 tbs lemon zest
  • ½ cup (120ml) whole milk

Glaze

  • 1 cup (120g) powdered sugar
  • 1 tbs lemon juice
  • 2 tsp whole milk

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350ºF (180ºC). Line 1, 9"x5" loaf pan with parchment paper.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.
  3. In a large bowl beat the butter until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in sugar, about 2 minutes. Beat in lemon juice and zest. Add eggs one at a time. Scrape bowl as needed
  4. Mixing on low, add half flour mixture, half the milk, the rest of the flour mixture then the last of the milk. Mix until just combined.
  5. Bake for 30 minutes, or until edges peel away from edges and inserted wooden toothpick comes out clean.
  6. Let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes, then move to wire rack to cool completely.
  7. While cake is cooling, whisk together powdered sugar, lemon juice and milk until smooth. Drizzle over cooled cake before serving.