Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, key lime pound cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Key Lime Pound Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook key lime pound cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
- Make ready batter
- Get 1 cup butter
- Prepare 1/2 cup shortening - I used 1 cup
- Prepare 3 cup sugar
- Prepare 6 large eggs
- Make ready 3 cup all-purpose flour
- Prepare 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare pinch salt
- Take 1 cup milk
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp lime zest
- Get 1/4 cup lime juice
- Prepare glaze
- Get 1 cup powdered sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp lime juice
- Get 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:
- 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.
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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