Recipe: Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze

Hi Nancy,

Hopefully someone will have the recipe you're looking for. Here's a recipe for Lemon Pound Cake with a glaze that includes butter, but not the amount you've described. Maybe double the glaze recipe?

Happy Holiday Baking,

Betsy

Lemon Pound Cake with Lemon Glaze

1 cup shortening
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tbsp. lemon extract
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. butter flavoring
1/2 tsp. yellow food color (opt.)
1/2 tsp. salt
3 cups sifted flour
3/4 cup buttermilk
1 tsp. soda
1 tbsp. vinegar

Cream shortening and sugar and add eggs, one at a time; mix well.
Then add extracts and color and salt.
Sift flour again and add alternately with buttermilk.
Mix soda and vinegar in a small bowl and add to the above mixture; blend well.
Pour into a 9- or 10-inch tube pan that has been greased and dusted with flour.
Bake in a slow oven, 325 degrees for about an hour and 5 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Do not overbake.
If desired, glaze cake.

GLAZE:
1/4 cup butter or margarine
2/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup lemon juice

Heat glaze ingredients until the sugar is dissolved.