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FRESH LEMON POUND CAKE

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Ingredients

Cake

  • 4 small lemons
  • 3 c. minus 6 T. all-purpose flour*
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 sticks butter softened
  • 3 c. granulated sugar ground in food processor
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1 c. Greek yogurt
  • *When substituting all-purpose flour for cake flour one cup of all-purpose, minus 2 tablespoons, is equal to one cup cake flour. Hence this weird measurement.

Icing

  • Juice of 2 small lemons
  • 1 c. powdered sugar

Instructions

  • Grease and flour two loaf pans. Preheat oven to 350.
  • Zest 4 small lemons into a large bowl. Pulse granulated sugar in a food processor and add to the lemon zest. Mix together until no clumps remain. Set aside.
  • Peel and supreme the zested lemons. Place the lemon supremes in a small bowl. Set aside.
  • Cream together butter and lemon sugar. Add eggs in one at at time.
  • Sift together flour, powder, and salt. Add slowly into the wet mixture.
  • Mix in Greek yogurt.
  • Fold in lemon supremes.
  • Split batter evenly between loaf pans. Bake at 350 for 60-75 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cakes comes out clean.
  • Cool for 10 minutes and then remove from pans onto a cooling rack.
  • After the cakes have cooled, pour the icing over the cakes. Serve and enjoy!

Notes

Adapted from Dozen Flours