Lemon Pound Cake ( Five Star)
I don't plow over out v stars for a recipe really oft together with for certain NOT the starting fourth dimension time I own a recipe. However, this recipe received my v star rating immediately! It is, yesteryear far, the best pound cake recipe I've e'er tried. It's texture is smooth, moist together with velvety, amongst a hint of lemon. The recipe makes i 10" metro pan or 2 loaf cakes. I promise you lot own it.
(1) 8 ounce cream cheese (room temperature)
6 eggs (room temperature)
1½ cups butter (room temperature)
3 cups white sugar
3 cups CAKE flour
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon lemon extract
Preheat oven to 325. Grease together with flour a 10" metro pan or 2 large loaf pans.
In a stand upward mixer (using whisk attachment), cream the butter together with cream cheese until shine together with silky. Slowly add together the saccharide piece the mixer is running, together with shell until really fluffy (it volition await similar whipped cream together with may accept equally long equally v minutes). Add the eggs, i at a time, beating good inward betwixt each egg. Add the extracts together with the lemon zest together with mix well.
Replace whisk attachment amongst paddle attachment. Sift the cake flour into a i loving cup stair out together with degree off amongst a knife. Add flour to butter mixture, i loving cup at a time, mixing only long plenty for the flour to disappear.
Pour batter into prepared metro pan (or 2 large prepared loaf pans). Hold the filled pan almost 6" higher upward your counter together with drib it (this volition dislodge whatever large air pockets). Bake cake for 1 lx minutes xx minutes. Test for doneness amongst toothpick test. Let the cake cool almost 10 minutes hence take from pan.
NOTE: The butter, cream cheese together with eggs must last at room temperature (I function out mine on the counter overnight). If you lot don't conduct maintain these ingredients at room temperature, they volition non mix correctly together with your cake volition non bake properly...very important.
NOTE: Don't own this recipe amongst all role flour. Cake flour actually makes a difference.
NOTE: You volition know you lot conduct maintain beaten the butter-cream cheese - saccharide mixture plenty when your stand upward mixer bowl is almost 2/3 amount together with is the consistency of whipped cream.
(1) 8 ounce cream cheese (room temperature)
6 eggs (room temperature)
1½ cups butter (room temperature)
3 cups white sugar
3 cups CAKE flour
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon lemon extract
Preheat oven to 325. Grease together with flour a 10" metro pan or 2 large loaf pans.
In a stand upward mixer (using whisk attachment), cream the butter together with cream cheese until shine together with silky. Slowly add together the saccharide piece the mixer is running, together with shell until really fluffy (it volition await similar whipped cream together with may accept equally long equally v minutes). Add the eggs, i at a time, beating good inward betwixt each egg. Add the extracts together with the lemon zest together with mix well.
Replace whisk attachment amongst paddle attachment. Sift the cake flour into a i loving cup stair out together with degree off amongst a knife. Add flour to butter mixture, i loving cup at a time, mixing only long plenty for the flour to disappear.
Pour batter into prepared metro pan (or 2 large prepared loaf pans). Hold the filled pan almost 6" higher upward your counter together with drib it (this volition dislodge whatever large air pockets). Bake cake for 1 lx minutes xx minutes. Test for doneness amongst toothpick test. Let the cake cool almost 10 minutes hence take from pan.
NOTE: The butter, cream cheese together with eggs must last at room temperature (I function out mine on the counter overnight). If you lot don't conduct maintain these ingredients at room temperature, they volition non mix correctly together with your cake volition non bake properly...very important.
NOTE: Don't own this recipe amongst all role flour. Cake flour actually makes a difference.
NOTE: You volition know you lot conduct maintain beaten the butter-cream cheese - saccharide mixture plenty when your stand upward mixer bowl is almost 2/3 amount together with is the consistency of whipped cream.
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