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Lemon pound cake with strawberries and icing on a black plate.
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Lemon Pound Cake

This Lemon Pound Cake is a Starbucks copycat recipe that doubles as a great easy dessert recipe and a simple brunch recipe.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword lemon pound cake
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 12
Calories 420kcal

Ingredients

Lemon Loaf

  • 1 cup Butter room temperature
  • 1 ½ cup Sugar
  • ½ cup Sour cream
  • ¼ teaspoon Salt
  • ¼ teaspoon Baking soda
  • 1 ½ cup Flour
  • 3 large Eggs
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon Lemon extract
  • Zest of 1 lemon

Icing

  • 3 tablespoon Butter room temperature
  • cup Powdered sugar
  • 3 tablespoon Whole Milk or Heavy Cream
  • 1 teaspoon Lemon extract

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°.
  • In the bowl of your stand mixer cream butter and sugar together.
  • Add sour cream to the butter mixture and combine thoroughly.
  • In a small bowl mix together flour, salt, and baking soda.
  • Slowly add the flour to the sour cream mixture adding ½ cup at a time alternating it with the eggs until all of the flour and eggs have been incorporated.
  • Add vanilla, lemon extract and lemon zest.
  • Prepare a loaf pan by greasing and flouring it and lining it with a piece of parchment paper cut to fit the bottom.
  • Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 40 minute - 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
  • Let cake cool completely on a cooling rack then spread or drizzle the icing over the cake and place it in the refrigerator to firm up.
  • Enjoy!

Icing

  • Whisk ingredients together in a small bowl.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 420kcal | Carbohydrates: 52g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Cholesterol: 99mg | Sodium: 256mg | Potassium: 49mg | Sugar: 40g | Vitamin A: 735IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 27mg | Iron: 0.9mg