Key Lime Pound Cake
Key Lime Pound Cake

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, key lime pound cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Key Lime Pound Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have key lime pound cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
  1. Get batter
  2. Get 1 cup butter
  3. Make ready 1/2 cup shortening - I used 1 cup
  4. Get 3 cup sugar
  5. Take 6 large eggs
  6. Prepare 3 cup all-purpose flour
  7. Get 1/2 tsp baking powder
  8. Take pinch salt
  9. Get 1 cup milk
  10. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
  11. Take 1 tsp lime zest
  12. Prepare 1/4 cup lime juice
  13. Take glaze
  14. Take 1 cup powdered sugar
  15. Get 2 tbsp lime juice
  16. Prepare 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Steps to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Prepare Key Lime Glaze, and immediately brush over top and sides of cake. Cool completely (about 1 hour).
  5. Glaze
  6. Whisk together powdered sugar, fresh Key lime juice, and vanilla until smooth. Use immediately.

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