Key Lime Pound Cake
Key Lime Pound Cake

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, key lime pound cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Key Lime Pound Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

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

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