Tomorrow is Resurrection Day!! Lemon Pound Cake

Hey! In honor of tomorrow being Resurrection Day, I thought I'd share my lemon pound cake recipe. It makes any holiday dinner (or regular night dinner, for that matter) lemony and happy!!

 

You will need:

wet ingredients
1 and 1/4 cups sugar
2 large lemons, zest and juice
3 jumbo eggs
2 tsp. vanilla (the real stuff is always better!)
2 sticks butter, melted (plus a bit more that's not melted but soft for greasing the pan)

dry ingredients
1 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour (plus a bit more for dusting the pan)
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt

glaze
1 lemon
1/2 cup sugar

Use a food processor or a blender for this (food processor is best).

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, making sure the rack you will be baking on is in the center of the oven.
Grease your loaf pan with the soft butter, then thoroughly dust with the extra flour.
Set aside.

Put sugar and the zest from both lemons into the food processor.
Pulse 8-10 times.
Add eggs and vanilla.
Put machine on low.
Add butter slowly with machine running. Keep running for about 30 seconds after.

In separate bowl, whisk dry ingredients together.

Mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients in 2 parts, mixing well.
Pour into loaf pan.

Bake for 16 minutes.

Lower heat to 325 degrees and bake for another 36 minutes, turning pan halfway through.

Make sure cake is done by sticking a toothpick or butter knife into the center. Clean toothpick = done cake.

Allow to cool in pan for about 30 minutes.

Put cake onto aluminum foil, or serving dish. Using a small paring knife, stab holes into sides and top of cake (don't make them like big, gaping wounds. It's ugly.)

Make glaze: put sugar and juice of lemon into small saucepan, and cook on low, stirring CONSTANTLY. Soon, it will make a lemon syrup.

While syrupy glaze is hot, pour it over the lemon pound cake, pushing it down over the sides if necessary.

Allow to cool. Then serve or wrap up.

Enjoy! <3