Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, key lime pound cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Key Lime Pound Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Our Key Lime Pound Cake somehow manages to be both substantial and airy—it's a textural dream. It's also infused with the zesty zing of fresh Key limes. That's thanks to both Key lime zest and Key lime juice, a dynamic, flavorful duo that really shines in this recipe.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have key lime pound cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
- Get batter
- Take 1 cup butter
- Take 1/2 cup shortening - I used 1 cup
- Take 3 cup sugar
- Take 6 large eggs
- Get 3 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Get pinch salt
- Take 1 cup milk
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 tsp lime zest
- Prepare 1/4 cup lime juice
- Make ready glaze
- Take 1 cup powdered sugar
- Get 2 tbsp lime juice
- Prepare 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
This cake has become one of my most popular cake recipes and if. Dress up traditional pound cake with a little lime zest and a homemade Key lime glaze for a deliciously tropical dessert. I was so looing forward to taking this Key Lime Pound Cake to our family Easter Dinner. Prepped all ingredients to room temperature and followed directions carefully.
Steps to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
- Preheat oven to 325°. Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
- Stir together flour, baking powder, and 1/8 tsp. salt. Add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla, lime zest, and lime juice. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch (12-cup) tube pan.
- Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack.
- Prepare Key Lime Glaze, and immediately brush over top and sides of cake. Cool completely (about 1 hour).
- Glaze
- Whisk together powdered sugar, fresh Key lime juice, and vanilla until smooth. Use immediately.
Made this Key Lime Pound Cake yesterday and was a little leary about the temperature and cooking time but to my surprise. This was absolutely a wonderful change to the regular pound cake. If you like lime and want a velvety dense moist pound cake. I do a lot of baking and this will be in my. Stir juice, milk, zest and vanilla together.
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