Key Lime Pound Cake
Key Lime Pound Cake

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, key lime pound cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Our Key Lime Pound Cake somehow manages to be both substantial and airy—it's a textural dream. It's also infused with the zesty zing of fresh Key limes. That's thanks to both Key lime zest and Key lime juice, a dynamic, flavorful duo that really shines in this recipe.

Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Key Lime Pound Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have key lime pound cake using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
  1. Get salted butter, softened
  2. Make ready shortening
  3. Make ready sugar
  4. Prepare large eggs
  5. Get all purpose flour
  6. Get baking powder
  7. Take milk
  8. Get vanilla extract
  9. Prepare lime zest
  10. Get fresh lime juice
  11. Prepare For Key lime glaze:
  12. Get powdered sugar
  13. Prepare fresh lime juice
  14. Get vanilla extract

I was so looing forward to taking this Key Lime Pound Cake to our family Easter Dinner. Prepped all ingredients to room temperature and followed directions carefully. New Orleans native Charlie Andrews demonstrates on how to make a Homemade Key lime pound cake. This cake is made with real limes.

Steps to make Key Lime Pound Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 325°F. Cream together butter and shortening. Gradually add sugar until light and fluffy.
  2. Add eggs one at a time beating until just blended.
  3. Stir flour, baking soda together in separate bowl and add alternatively with milk by starting with flour and ending with flour until just blended. Do not over mix. Stir in lime juice, vanilla, and lime zest.
  4. Pour batter into 10 inch greased and floured tube pan or fluted pan. Bake at 325°F for an hour and 15 minutes or until tooth pick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10-15 minutes. Remove from pan to wire rack.
  5. Mix together key lime glaze until smooth and pour over cake while warm.

Stir juice, milk, zest and vanilla together. Now mixing by hand, gradually flour to the butter-egg mixture alternating with the key lime juice and milk mixture. This key lime pound cake will take you to The Keys. It's a tender and moist pound cake. Refreshing, the key lime flavor isn't overpowering.

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