Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, key lime pound cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Key Lime Pound Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first 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:
- Get batter
- Take 1 cup butter
- Prepare 1/2 cup shortening - I used 1 cup
- Take 3 cup sugar
- Take 6 large eggs
- Get 3 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Get pinch salt
- Take 1 cup milk
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 tsp lime zest
- Take 1/4 cup lime juice
- Get glaze
- Take 1 cup powdered sugar
- Make ready 2 tbsp lime juice
- Get 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
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.
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