Recipe of Super Quick Key Lime Pound Cake

Hello everybody, welcome to my recipe site. Today I will show you how to make a distinctive dish, Key Lime Pound Cake. This is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna really delicious.

Key Lime Pound Cake Recipe. 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.

You can have Key Lime Pound Cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Key Lime Pound Cake

1. Make ready of batter.
2. Make ready 1 cup of butter.
3. It’s 1/2 cup of shortening - I used 1 cup.
4. Prepare 3 cup of sugar.
5. It’s 6 of large eggs.
6. You need 3 cup of all-purpose flour.
7. You need 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
8. You need pinch of salt.
9. You need 1 cup of milk.
10. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
11. You need 1 tsp of lime zest.
12. It’s 1/4 cup of lime juice.
13. It’s of glaze.
14. You need 1 cup of powdered sugar.
15. It’s 2 tbsp of lime juice.
16. You need 1/2 tsp of 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.

Key Lime Pound Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 325°. Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition..
2. Stir together flour, baking powder, and 1/8 tsp. salt. Add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla, lime zest, and lime juice. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch (12-cup) tube pan..
3. Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack..
4. Prepare Key Lime Glaze, and immediately brush over top and sides of cake. Cool completely (about 1 hour)..
5. Glaze.
6. Whisk together powdered sugar, fresh Key lime juice, and vanilla until smooth. Use immediately..

This recipe I originally shared as part of a virtual progressive dinner - of course I brought the dessert.This cake has become one of my most popular cake recipes and if.Dress up traditional pound cake with a little lime zest and a homemade Key lime glaze for a deliciously tropical dessert.

Not to toot my own horn, but I am a (self-appointed) Pound Cake Queen.I mean, what would Grandbaby Cakes be if I didn't know my way around cake or This Key Lime Cake is a testament to the skills my Big Mama taught me.Each bite is buttery, zesty, fragrant and sweet.Key lime juice and rum are baked in the cake, which is then glazed with more lime juice and rum!It is a pound cake with a light but distinguished flavor.