Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, key lime pound cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Key Lime Pound Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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
- Prepare 1 cup butter
- Take 1/2 cup shortening - I used 1 cup
- Make ready 3 cup sugar
- Take 6 large eggs
- Take 3 cup all-purpose flour
- Get 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare pinch salt
- Take 1 cup milk
- Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 1 tsp lime zest
- Prepare 1/4 cup lime juice
- Take glaze
- Make ready 1 cup powdered sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp lime juice
- Take 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
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. New Orleans native Charlie Andrews demonstrates on how to make a Homemade Key lime pound cake. This cake is made with real limes.
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.
Fresh key limes are the secret to this refreshing key lime pound cake. Stir juice, milk, zest and vanilla together. Now mixing by hand, gradually flour to the butter-egg mixture alternating with the key lime juice and milk mixture. This key lime pound cake will take you to The Keys. It's a tender and moist pound cake.
So that’s going to wrap it up for this special food key lime pound cake recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am sure you can make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page in your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!
