Easy Lemon Pound Cake

Name: Easy Lemon Pound Cake
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups (6 ounces), cake flour; 1 teaspoon, baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon, salt; 1 1/4 cups (8 3/4 ounces), sugar; 4 , large eggs, room temperature; 2 tablespoons, grated lemon zest plus 2 teaspoons juice (2 lemons); 1 1/2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 16 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and hot

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2017

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

SERVES8

TIME1½ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Classic pound cake recipes tend to be very particular, requiring ingredients at certain temperatures and finicky mixing methods to ensure a proper emulsion of the eggs and batter. (If you’re off, you end up with a curdled batter and a dense...

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