Double Glazed Lemon Pound Cake

Double Glazed Lemon Pound Cake is moist and delicious. Topped with a sweet lemon glaze and a Cream Cheese Glaze! It’s like sunshine in your mouth!!

We had a couple days with no rains AND sunshine!!! We’ve had some cloudy days with no rain and rainy days with sunshine, but these were two days with no rain and SUNSHINE!!! I was in heaven!!! This is our third winter in Portland but it’s our first El Nino. It’s rough. I still love this place and never want to leave but I am ready for more sunny days! To celebrate I wanted to make a super bright and sunny dessert and so I bring you my Double Glazed Lemon Pound Cake!

This cake is so simple to make, and I have most of the ingredients on hand in my kitchen usually. I love drinking lemon water during the day or warm lemon water before bed so I love having a big bowl of lemons around so I was all set to make Double Lemon Pound Cake to celebrate the sunshine. I’m so glad I did too! This cake is moist and full of lemon flavor. The first glaze adds more lemon flavor and because it’s added while the cake is still hot it is absorbed into the cake just making it even more moist and amazing. The cream cheese glaze was added because I like the way it looked but then when I tasted this cake I knew it was meant to be. I love the sweet creamy, almost cheesecake flavor that you get from the cream cheese glaze. I am sure I’ll be making this cake again before summer when I start to miss the sun again!

Double Glazed Lemon Pound Cake

Double Glazed Lemon Pound Cake is moist and delicious then topped with a sweet lemon glaze while hot and a Cream Cheese Glaze once it cools! It's like sunshine in your mouth!!

Print Recipe Rate Recipe

Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour hour 5 minutes minutes

Total Time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes

Course: Dessert

Servings: 8 to 10

Calories: 529kcal

Author: Aubrey Cota

Ingredients

Lemon Pound Cake

• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup butter softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• ¼ cup fresh lemon juice

Lemon Glaze

• ⅓ cup granulated sugar
• ⅓ cup fresh lemon juice

Cream Cheese Glaze

• 2 tbsp cream cheese softened
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tsp lemon zest

Instructions

Lemon Pound Cake

• preheat oven to 350 degrees F
• butter a loaf pan and line it with parchment paper
• in a medium mixing bowl whisk flour, baking powder and salt
• using the whisk attachment of a stand mixer cream the butter and sugar together and scrape the bowl down
• on low speed add one egg at a time
• add in the vanilla extract
• add in a 1/3 of the flour mixture and then a 1/3 of the lemon juice repeat this 2 more times until all is incorporated
• bake for 65 to 75 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean
• allow to cool for 2-3 minutes
• remove to a cooling rack placed on a baking sheet

Lemon Glaze

• whisk together the granulated sugar and lemon juice
• while cake is still warm brush the glaze on top and sides of cake, continuing until all the glaze is soaked up by the cake
• allow to cool completely

Cream Cheese Glaze

• whisk together the cream cheese and milk until smooth
• stir in the confectioners' sugar until smooth
• once cake is cool pour glaze over the top of the cake allowing it to drip down the sides
• sprinkle with the lemon zest
• enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 529kcal | Carbohydrates: 68g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Cholesterol: 147mg | Sodium: 394mg | Potassium: 153mg | Sugar: 48g | Vitamin A: 875IU | Vitamin C: 7.2mg | Calcium: 58mg | Iron: 1.5mg

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