Lemon Pound Cake
From borinda 17 years ago
- 70 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This is THE BEST lemon pound cake ever. This is actually Maida Heatter's famous "East 62nd St. Cake". Whenever I offer to take dessert to anyone's home, this is first on the request list. It has a great, clean flavor, perfect crumb, and the glaze makes it perfect.
Ingredients
- EAST 62D STREET lemon cake shopping list
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- Fine dry bread crumbs shopping list
- 3 cups flour shopping list
- 2 teaspoons baking powder shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1/2 pound plain butter shopping list
- 2 cups sugar shopping list
- 4 eggs shopping list
- 1 cup milk shopping list
- 2 tablespoons grated lemon rind shopping list
- Glaze shopping list
- 1/3 cup lemon juice shopping list
- 3/4 cup sugar. shopping list
How to make it
- Adjust rack one-third up from bottom of oven. Preheat to 350.
- Butter a 9x3 1/2-inch tube pan and dust it lightly with fine, dry bread crumbs. (a 10" angel food pan works fine, too)
- Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.
- In large bowl of electric mixer cream the butter.
- Add sugar and beat 2-3 minutes.
- Beat in eggs individually, scraping bowl as necessary with a rubber spatula to keep mixture smooth.
- On lowest speed, alternately add dry ingredients in three additions and milk in two additions, scrapping as necessary and beating only until smooth after each addition.
- Stir in lemon rind.
- Turn batter into prepared pan; level top by rotating pan briskly back and forth.
- Bake 1 hour and 10-15 minutes until a cake tester comes out dry. Let cake stand in pan for about 5 minutes; then cover with a rack and invert.
- Remove pan, leaving cake upside down.
- Place over a large piece of aluminum foil or wax paper and prepare glaze of 1/3 cup lemon juice and 3/4 cup sugar.
- Glaze should be used immediately after it is mixed.
- Stir juice and sugar and brush all over the hot cake until absorbed. Let cake cool completely.
- Transfer to a cake plate. Do not cut for at least several hours.
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
I am running to kitchen now with spatula!!!!!
greekgirrrl
in Long Island loved it
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I rated it 5 forks and gave special honors. It truly is THAT GOOD! Going to gym now for 5 hours. LOL
greekgirrrl
in Long Island loved it
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Oh borinda I have gained 50lbs just looking at the recipe but it is one that I have been trying to find that is truly divine I gave you a 5 rating and an honors rating to.
Thanks for a great post.
Have a grand day!!!!
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silverqueen
in Albany loved it
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