Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, key lime pound cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
A sweet, moist, dense key lime pound cake drizzled with a tart key lime glaze. A delicious Southern twist to a traditional pound cake. This recipe I originally shared as part of a virtual progressive dinner - of course I brought the dessert.
Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Key Lime Pound Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have key lime pound cake using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
- Prepare 1 cup salted butter, softened
- Prepare 1/2 cup shortening
- Take 3 cups sugar
- Make ready 6 large eggs
- Take 3 cups all purpose flour
- Prepare 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Take 1 cup milk
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp lime zest
- Get 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
- Take For Key lime glaze:
- Make ready 1 cup powdered sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp fresh lime juice
- Make ready 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
How can you rate a given recipe when you make so many adjustments? 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 two? I've spent the better part of my life whisking bowls of batter and glazing freshly baked bundts.
Instructions to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Cream together butter and shortening. Gradually add sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time beating until just blended.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mix together key lime glaze until smooth and pour over cake while warm.
Key lime glazed pound cake whisks you away to that tropical paradise and is the perfect recipe for entertaining guests in the summer time. Made this Key Lime Pound Cake yesterday and was a little leary about the temperature and cooking time but to my surprise. The classic, Southern-favorite pound cake gets an infusion of tropical flavor in this recipe for our best-ever Key Lime Pound Cake. Fresh key limes are the secret to this refreshing key lime pound cake. Stir juice, milk, zest and vanilla together.
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