Key Lime Pound Cake
Key Lime Pound Cake

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, key lime pound cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Key Lime Pound Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook key lime pound cake using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
  1. Prepare 1 cup salted butter, softened
  2. Get 1/2 cup shortening
  3. Get 3 cups sugar
  4. Take 6 large eggs
  5. Prepare 3 cups all purpose flour
  6. Get 1/2 tsp baking powder
  7. Make ready 1 cup milk
  8. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
  9. Prepare 1 tsp lime zest
  10. Prepare 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
  11. Take For Key lime glaze:
  12. Take 1 cup powdered sugar
  13. Prepare 2 tbsp fresh lime juice
  14. Make ready 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Prepped all ingredients to room temperature and followed directions carefully. Make the cake: In a large mixing bowl, combine butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. 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.

Steps to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 325°F. Cream together butter and shortening. Gradually add sugar until light and fluffy.
  2. Add eggs one at a time beating until just blended.
  3. Stir flour, baking soda together in separate bowl and add alternatively with milk by starting with flour and ending with flour until just blended. Do not over mix. Stir in lime juice, vanilla, and lime zest.
  4. Pour batter into 10 inch greased and floured tube pan or fluted pan. Bake at 325°F for an hour and 15 minutes or until tooth pick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10-15 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack.
  5. Mix together key lime glaze until smooth and pour over cake while warm.

If you like lime and want a velvety dense moist pound cake. I do a lot of baking and this will be in my. Not to toot my own horn, but I am a (self-appointed) Pound Cake Queen. I mean, what would Grandbaby Cakes be if I didn't know my way around cake or This Key Lime Cake is a testament to the skills my Big Mama taught me. Each bite is buttery, zesty, fragrant and sweet.

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