Recipe: Perfect Lemon Pound Cake

Lemon Pound Cake.

You can have Lemon Pound Cake using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Lemon Pound Cake

1. You need of pound cake.
2. You need 1 1/2 cup of cake flour, plus 2 tablespoons.
3. It's 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
4. You need 2 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
5. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
6. Prepare 3/4 of cup, salted butter, room temperature.
7. It's 1 1/2 cup of ricotta cheese.
8. You need 3 large of eggs.
9. You need 2 tsp of pure vanilla.
10. It's 2 tsp of lemon zest, equals about two large lemons.
11. It's 1 tsp of fresh lemon juice.

Lemon Pound Cake step by step

1. Cream butter and sugar in large mixing bowl on medium high for 4 minutes. You want to incorporate as much air into this..
2. Beat in eggs, one at a time..
3. Mix in ricotta,lemon juice, vanilla and zest, scraping sides after each addition..
4. Add in your dry ingredients and mix until just incorporated..
5. Pour batter into greased loaf pan and bake in preheated 350°F oven for 45- 55 minutes..
6. Loaf is done when toothpick is inserted into center and comes out clean..
7. Cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning cake out..
8. Recipe by taylor68too..
9. For glaze: 1 cup powdered sugar, 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Stir until liquid is mixed well into sugar. Drizzle over cake..