Ugh! As I write this, it’s turned cold again. I’m soooo ready for Spring. I made this lemon pound cake to try to beat the Go Away Winter Blues. 
I wish I could give you a source for this recipe. It’s one I had written down on a sheet of paper and scanned this summer to preserve it in the cloud. It’s probably from one of those wonderful cookbooks where the ladies of a church all get together and pool their recipes. Originally the recipe called for commercially prepared lemon juice as an ingredient (everyone had a bottle in the fridge 30 years ago); it will take 2 to 3 lemons depending on their size. Since I was using the juice, I decided to use the zest, too. The result was a nice lemon flavor that wasn’t overpowering. When I made the pound cake, I couldn’t find my zester. Rather than not use the zest, I carefully cut the peel and removed the white pith and sliced the peel into little bits. The glaze in this recipe is very light and soaks into the cake which tastes really nice. You’ll want to use a loaf pan to make this pound cake. When copying the recipe, I made a note to reduce the heat of the oven from 350° to 325° if using a glass loaf pan…just thought I’d pass that along 😉
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter (1/2 pound or 2 sticks)
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- zest and juice of two lemons, divided (between 1/2 – 3/4 cups of lemon juice)
- 1/3 cup confectioner’s sugar
Method:
- Pre-heat the oven to 350° and prepare a loaf pan for baking.
- Measure the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and mix together.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, sugar and half the lemon zest.
- Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
- Alternately add in the dry ingredients and 1/4 cup of the lemon juice.
- Pour into the prepared loaf pan and bake for 60 minutes.
- The top of the cake will crack but it will be finished when a knife inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool.
- Prepare the glaze by mixing the remaining lemon zest, juice and confectioner’s sugar together until blended. You can add more sugar and/or lemon juice as needed to make the glaze to a consistency you prefer.
- Pour glaze over the cooled cake. A thinner glaze will soak in, whereas a thicker glaze will set on top.
This lemon pound cake really hit the spot with a hot cup of Earl Grey. I’m starting to feel more Spring like already! Do you have any old recipes sitting around somewhere? How do you organize them?
OH I love the idea of a lemon pound cake! This looks delicious! Thanks so much for sharing at Saturday Night Fever!!
Thanks Cathy! I’m glad you like it 🙂
Lydia, this looks delicious!! love lemon. I’m featuring this on tomorrows Serenity Saturday link party
Thank you Natasha! I’m pleased to hear it. See you tomorrow 🙂
Lydia, absolutely in love with lemon… and this pound cake. Thank you for sharing your lemony delicious recipe with all of us at the Show Stopper party! 😉
Thanks Gloria. I always find something interesting at the Show Stopper party 🙂
Lemon Cake is my husband and I’s favorite dessert! Thanks for sharing at my Sunday Dinner Link Party!
This looks amazing and I can not wait to try it. I just wanted to let you know that I am featuring this post on Tuesdays with a Twist link party, please stop by Tuesday morning to check it out. Thanks again and have a great day.
Thank you so much for the feature 🙂 This has been a lovely cake. I’m glad I found the recipe in my stash!
Yumm! this looks amazing!
I love lemon! And I am so ready for spring too. Hope you have a great day.
I have been in a real lemon mood lately, this looks perfectly divine!
What a delicious cake! I really want to try this out. Hope I get it right!
I’m sure it will be great. Drop me a line if you have any questions 🙂
I love lemon desserts so I will pin this & try it later.
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Can’t wait to try this. I love Lemon Pound Cake! Thanks for sharing on Whatever Wednesday on Thank You Honey! Hope to see you again next week!
Oh this looks so good! I love lemon pound cake, but have never made it before. I am definitely going to have to try this. Thank you for posting!
Please let me know how it turns out for you 🙂
Oh this looks very Yummy.. I love Lemon Cake 🙂 Ive just pinned this x
Thanks for pinning. Hope you like it 🙂
oo yummy! The best part is because it’s lemon I’ll probably get to eat most of it by myself!
hahaha That’s definitely a plus!
I love everything lemon, and this cake looks amazing Lydia! I keep my old recipes in plastic sleeves in a 3-ring binder, or two. 😉
I scanned everything because we were moving overseas and I couldn’t take all my torn out magazine pages and yellowed index cards. I remember copying many of the recipes from my mother’s collection shortly after I got married in 1985. 🙂 Hope you get a chance to make the pound cake. It’s great!
I definitely need to try this! I love lemon in breads! Pinning!
Thanks for pinning Michelle! Have a great week!
I am always open to another lemon pound cake recipe! One of my favorite foods! Pinned!
Thank you for pinning 🙂 I really enjoy the flavor of this poundcake, I hope you will, too.
I LOVE lemon desserts. Thank you for linking up to Plucky’s Second Thought. Im the co-host this week and wanted to introduce myself and let you know I’ve pinned your recipe to my desserts Pinterest board!
Thank you, Corinna! Nice to meet you 🙂
I typically don’t like lemon flavor things, but this looks so good! I like the twist of the lemon zest. I’ve never heard of someone adding that in a lemon cake. Thanks for sharing this one with us too at Countdown in Style!
Mmmmmm Looks so yummy! Gotta try 🙂
I love anything lemon flavored, so I feel like it’s my duty to make this! LOL 🙂 I’ve shared and pinned it!
Thanks for joining the Link Up this week!
Thanks Jess. Please let me know how you like it 🙂
Mmmmm…looks amazing! Pinned!
I need to make another one. We got another load of snow this morning!
This looks delicious! I love anything lemon and will keep this recipe. Happy to have found you via Huckleberry Love.
Thank you Dana. Nice to meet you 🙂
I’ve never made lemon cake, but my husband LOVES it. I will have to try this out so that he can have some. I just need confectioner’s sugar! Thanks for sharing with Countdown in Style!
I’m trying the same tactic with moving on to spring-y recipes despite the still too cold weather. This pound cake looks simply delicious. Love seeing all the little bits of zest on top!
Thanks! It was tasty.
I love how lemony this pound cake is, Lydia! I’m wanting the warm weather to hurry and get here, too! It’s not coming fast enough… in fact, it’s dragging it’s behind. 😉
This recipe looks AMAZING!!! I can’t wait to try it! Thanks so much for sharing it, wherever you got it- it seems to be a winner!
I hope you like it 🙂
Oh, I need to try this!
I love lemon. This looks delicious!
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~Kim
Thanks Kim! Have a great weekend 🙂
I love pound cake and I think adding lemon would be the perfect twist. Thanks for sharing.
Mmmm…I am a huge fan of lemon so this is something fife me to try this afternoon after I homeschool. I am so looking forward for spring now.
Let me know how it turns out, Kalley 🙂