Lemon Pound Cake

id="recipetitle"class="fn">Lemon Pound Cake

One day I had an intense craving for pound cake for which I cannot explain. I stumbled upon this simple yet awesome recipe. Be warned, this is not for you if you are having a fat day. Go find yourself a low-fat oatmeal cookie or something.

13/03/13: Just discovered that this freezes beautifully. I thawed it in the fridge and then gave it a few seconds in the microwave to take the chill off. I recommend baking this, eating a piece or five, and then immediately freezing it to avoid devouring the whole loaf.


INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup butter, softened

1 cup sugar, plus 1/3 cup

4 eggs

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

1/4 cup lemon juice, plus 1/3 cup

DIRECTIONS

1) Preheat the oven to 350F. Grease and flour bottom only of a loaf pan. In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt.

2) In stand up mixer, cream the butter. Add 1 cup of the sugar and beat. With the mixer running at low speed, add the eggs one at a time. Add the vanilla.

3) Working in alternating batches, and mixing after each addition, add the dry ingredients and 1/4 cup of the lemon juice to the butter mixture. Mix until just smooth. Pour into the pan and bake until toothpick inserted into the center comes out dry and almost clean. Between 65 and 75 minutes.

4) In a small bowl, stir together the remaining 1/3 cup sugar and the remaining 1/3 cup lemon juice until the sugar is dissolved. When the cake is done, let it cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the sides of the pan. Set a wire rack on a sheet pan with sides (to catch the glaze) and turn the cake out onto the rack.

5) Obviously this cake is lacking calories, so you should probably glaze the shit out of it. Using a pastry brush, spread the glaze all over the top, bottom, and sides of the cake and let it soak in. Give'r until all the glaze is used up, and half of it is sprayed across your counter.

I just noticed that the original recipe says "serve at room temperature, in thin slices". Good thing I just cut myself an effing wedge. I recommend serving this with strawberries, or some other fruit that doesn't judge you on your poor life choices.