I love lemons! Hence I love all the lemony desserts. Today I made a lemon pound cake. I was looking for a simple recipe and this one turned out great.
prep tme 25 min cook time 50 min
ingredients
- 200 g butter (soft)
- 2 dl sugar
- 3 eggs (room temperature)
- 2-3 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp lemon zest
- 3 dl flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp vanilla sugar
- for greasing the bundt pan some butter and flour/sugar/bread crumbs
- for decorating some zest and powdered sugar
1. Grease and flour a bundt pan and turn on the oven at 175C.
2. Cream butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time and cream well. Add lemon juice and zest.
3. Mix together dry ingredients and add to the cream folding them well with a spatula.
4. Pour the batter into the pan and smooth with a rubber spatula.
5. Bake at 175C for about 50 min until golden brown and the tester comes out clean.
6. Let the cake cool for 10 min before you invert it onto a wire rack.
7. Leave the cake to cool completely before decorating it with powdered sugar and some zest.
tip 1: use always butter and eggs at room temperature
tip 2: sift always the dry ingredients before adding to the batter
BUON APPETITO!