Simple Way to Make Favorite Key Lime Pound Cake

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, key lime pound cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Hey Y'all - King Cake Beignets. Dress up traditional pound cake with a little lime zest and a homemade Key lime glaze for a deliciously tropical dessert. How can you rate a given recipe when you make so many adjustments? As an Amazon affiliate, and affiliate with other businesses, I earn from qualifying purchases.

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

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have key lime pound cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Key Lime Pound Cake:

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

For this key lime pound cake, I opted to use all butter instead of my usual butter-shortening duo. Something about all-butter pound cakes with You won't find any lime jello in this key lime pound cake. Sure artificial lime can boost the lime flavor and give it a green color, but there is nothing like. Key lime glazed pound cake whisks you away to that tropical paradise and is the perfect recipe for entertaining guests in the summer time.

Steps to make Key Lime Pound Cake:

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.

Sure artificial lime can boost the lime flavor and give it a green color, but there is nothing like. Key lime glazed pound cake whisks you away to that tropical paradise and is the perfect recipe for entertaining guests in the summer time. Made this Key Lime Pound Cake yesterday and was a little leary about the temperature and cooking time but to my surprise. This key lime ( or regular lime!) cake is made with fresh fruit juice, and zest. It's completely homemade, and perfect for any occasion!

So that is going to wrap this up for this special food key lime pound cake recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I’m confident that you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!