I can’t resist lemon cakes, especially if they pack a big citrus punch. I am always trying new recipes to find the perfect lemon pound cake. This one is my best yet! Lemon pound cake, topped with lemon glaze, and moist coconut. Delicious! The lemon flavour is achieved from using both lemon zest and lemon essence in the cake mixture. Made with sour cream, it is incredibly moist and tasty.
I don’t think this cake will last long in our home! It feels good to get baking again, just in time for all the holiday baking I have planned.
Lemon Pound Cake
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This Lemon Pound Cake is moist and bursting with lemon flavour. Topped with lemon glaze and moist coconut, it is sure to please.
Author: Lisa
Recipe type: Cakes
Cuisine: Baking
Serves: 10
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pans
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for pans
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoons finely grated lemon zest (from 2 lemons)
- 1¼ cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon lemon essence
- ½ cup sour cream
- Lemon Glaze:
- 1 cup icing (confectioners sugar)
- lemon juice
- moist coconut
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 170 deg C (350 deg F). Grease and Line a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
- In a large bowl, using an electric mixer on high speed, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition; mix in vanilla. With mixer on low, alternately add flour mixture in three parts, and sour cream in two, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
- Place batter in prepared pan and smooth top. Bake until a toothpick inserted in centre of cake comes out clean, 55 to 65 minutes (tent loosely with foil if browning too quickly). Let cake cool completely and then cover with lemon glaze and coconut.
- Lemon Glaze: Combine lemon juice and icing sugar and mix until it is a spreadable consistency.
Recipe is adapted from Martha Stewart’s Cakes – one of our favourite and most used cookbooks.
Check out some of our favourite lemon recipes – Lemon Crinkle Cookies, Lemon Bundt Cake, Lemon Yoghurt Cake, and Lemon and Coconut Slice.
This looks delicious!! Thanks for sharing!!
Yum! My lemon tree is full of lemons just waiting to be picked!
You are so lucky having a lemon tree. I am waiting for mine to grow and bear fruit – think it will be still a few years before I get any lemons 🙂 Have a great week!
Looks delish- Thanks for the recipe. Just one question, about how much lemon juice in frosting?
Thanks Lindy – slowly add the lemon juice until you get a spreadable consistency for the frosting. You probably need around 1 tablespoon, but add it slowly while you mix.
This is beautiful and sounds delicious!
Thanks Mary – it is a favourite in our home.
Cake sounds delicious just one problem, how much does 1stick or 8 tablespoons of butter weigh please? I do have a set of cup measurements but have never worked out how to measure a cup of butter either.
Hi Tee – 1 stick of butter is 115 g. Happy baking, Lisa
Thank you so much Lisa. That’s very useful to know. Can’t wait to make that luscious lemon cake now.
This recipe sounds wonderful. Where do you buy lemon essence? Is it lemon oil?
Can’t wait to make this delicious looking lemon cake. Thanks!
From UK..weight of stick of butter & how do you measure a SPOON of butter?
Flour again weight if possible.
Would love to bake this!!