I hadn't decided on the cake I was going to make today yet and then my boy, Tali 2, helped me out. See...his mother bought a lemon pound cake for Easter and set the poor, sweet dear child up by putting it where he could see it a full two days before he'd be able to have a slice. Straight up entrapment. The cake got the best of him and well...he started nibbling around the edges. It was SO good...the poor sweetheart ate all the edges off the cake.
I imagined that poor child's pain at having such a delicious looking cake so near...and yet so far and decided right then and there that my Easter dessert was going to be lemon pound cake.
I haven't made it in a while and started searching for gluten free recipes. I didn't see one that made sense to me so I just made the recipe of one that did sound right and simply substituted the all purpose flour with Bob's Red Mill all purpose gluten-free flour.
When looking for a pound cake recipe, don't be fooled by any of the recipes you see that use words like, 'quick' and 'easy' or any recipe that doesn't have one ingredient on the list with the word 'cream' in it. GOOD pound cake cooks slow and low and includes sour cream or cream cheese. If the recipe doesn't have one of those in it...keep it moving.
Swiftly.
Oh...and a glaze is a must.
The recipe I settled on was this one: Lemon Pound Cake Recipe
“INGREDIENTS
For the Lemon Pound Cake
3 sticks butter (1½ cups)
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese
6 eggs
2 tablespoons lemon juice
zest of one lemon
3 cups sugar
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon vanilla
For the Lemon Buttermilk Glaze
1½ cups confectioner’s sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
zest of 1 lemon
1 tablespoon buttermilk
INSTRUCTIONS
For the Lemon Pound Cake
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Prepare bundt or tube pan by coating with shortening or butter and flouring light. Set aside.
Let butter, cream cheese, and eggs come to room temperature.
Cream together butter, cream cheese and sugar til fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Add lemon juice and zest and combine well. Add flour and salt and vanilla.
Mix until just well-combined but do not over mix.
Pour into prepared bundt or tube pan.
Bake until golden brown and skewer inserted into middle of cake comes out clean, about 1 hour and 15 - 30 minutes.
For the Lemon Buttermilk Glaze
As the cake is cooling, whisk together ingredients confectioner’s sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest, and buttermilk to make the glaze. Allow to sit until cake has fully cooled, then drizzle over top of lemon pound cake.”
Now...please read the recipe first. Note that this cake should not be on your list of things you bake regularly. Why? It's probably a gamillion calories per slice. LOL! The most difficult part of this cake is making the lemon zest. As always. I'd seriously pay for lemon zest. Can you buy it? I've never thought about buying it but sheesh...I would. There have probably only been two times in my life when I was getting the zest off a lemon and didn't scrape my dang knuckles.
UGH!
Hate that! I must be getting better though because I didn't do it this time. LOL! Don't try and skip steps like add all the eggs at once. Do it the way the recipe tells you to do it and your cake will be guaranteed to be super moist. Soooooooooooo good!
HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!! What cake did you end up baking?
