Lemon glazed pound cake
Lemon glazed pound cake recipe in the cake category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 cup butter flavored Crisco
- 5 tablespoons regular Crisco
- 2 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 6 eggs
- 3 cups flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon butter flavoring
- 8 drops yellow food coloring
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
- 1/2 cup hot water
- Lemon glaze:
- 1/2 to 1/3 cup real lemon juice
- About 2 cups sifted confectioners sugar
Recipe method:
- Put eggs in really warm water.
- In a large bowl, cream Crisco until light. Add sugar a little at a time.
- Add eggs, one at a time, along with Crisco and sugar.
- Beat well after each egg is added. Beat on high.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a measuring cup put 1/2 cup of evaporated milk, flavoring and food coloring.
- Add hot water. Stir well.
- Blend flour and milk alternately into creamed mixture.
- Bake in a 10 inch tube pan which has been prepared by putting 2 pieces of wax paper in pan.
- Grease well or spray with pam.
- Bake at 325 degrees F for 1 hour 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let set 5 minutes.
- Turn cake onto wire rack.
- On another rack place a piece of aluminum foil. Turn cake upright on this.
- Lemon glaze: This mixture should be thin to soak into the cake.
- Put lemon glaze on cake as soon as it is turned upright on foil.
- Cover with a cake cover while still hot.
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