Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, key lime pound cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Our Key Lime Pound Cake somehow manages to be both substantial and airy—it's a textural dream. It's also infused with the zesty zing of fresh Key limes. That's thanks to both Key lime zest and Key lime juice, a dynamic, flavorful duo that really shines in this recipe.
Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Key Lime Pound Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have 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
- Take 1 cup butter
- Prepare 1/2 cup shortening - I used 1 cup
- Take 3 cup sugar
- Make ready 6 large eggs
- Make ready 3 cup all-purpose flour
- Take 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Get pinch salt
- Get 1 cup milk
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp lime zest
- Make ready 1/4 cup lime juice
- Take glaze
- Take 1 cup powdered sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp lime juice
- Take 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
This cake is made with real limes. Dress up traditional pound cake with a little lime zest and a homemade Key lime glaze for a deliciously tropical dessert. I was so looing forward to taking this Key Lime Pound Cake to our family Easter Dinner. Prepped all ingredients to room temperature and followed directions carefully.
Instructions 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.
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. Key lime juice and rum are baked in the cake, which is then glazed with more lime juice and rum! It is a pound cake with a light but distinguished flavor.
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