ICED LEMON LOAF HALF POUND CAKE RECIPE
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Iced Lemon Loaf Half Pound Cake Recipe. This simple half pound cake is flavored with lemon then smothered with a lusciously thick layer of lemon glaze. It’s buttery moist, rich, and tastes incredible. It’s the ultimate lemon pound cake recipe.
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes
Iced Lemon Loaf Half Pound Cake
I started my Pound Cake Series in 2015. Since then, I’ve made a lot of pound cake recipes and shared them with you. I have been asked a lot about making the traditional-sized pound cake smaller. Therefore, I decided to give you a recipe that has already been scaled down for you.
Enter Lemon Loaf.
I’m thrilled with how this pound cake turned out. It’s light, deliciously moist, and zesty with a tender soft texture.
Iced Lemon Loaf Half Pound Cake Ingredients
Full recipe in the recipe card below
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- All-purpose flour
- Salt
- Granulated sugar
- Lemon zest
- vanilla
- Butter
- Sour cream
- Lemon juice
- Eggs
- Powdered sugar
- Lemon juice and zest from 1 lemon
How to Store Leftover Iced Lemon Loaf Half Pound Cake
I recommend storing leftover Lemon Bundt Cake in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It will last anywhere from 3 to 4 days without drying out.
Can I Freeze Lemon Pound Cake?
Yes, it freezes nicely. Wrap it up tightly with aluminum foil or plastic freezer wrap and store it in the freezer for 2 to 3 months.
Tips for Pound Cake Success
- Always use real
butter in pound cake recipes unless the recipe specifically gives you a substitution - Use good-quality ingredients. Especially when using flour, butter, and vanilla. It really does make a difference in the taste of all cakes.
- The standard in any recipe is to use Grade A Large eggs. If you use a smaller egg, use this guide for substitutions.
- Check out this post of tips, Bake the Perfect Pound Cake, Read it before making this or any pound cake.
- Additionally, you should calibrate your oven at least once a year. I wrote an easy-to-follow post, How to Calibrate your Oven, that you can use.
- Finally, I want to emphasize this point: every oven cooks differently. The type of pan you use also affects cooking time. The color of your pan, light versus dark, affects the cooking time. Therefore, the first time you make a new recipe, watch your cake carefully. Make notes, test, babysit it and write down exactly what you did and what pan you use.
Other Pound Cake Recipes to Make
- Butter Beer Pound Cake
- Coffee Cake Pound Cake
- Orange Creamsicle Pound Cake
- Sheet Pan Pound Cake
- Can I Bake a Pound Cake in a 9×13-inch Pan?
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ICED LEMON LOAF HALF POUND CAKE RECIPE
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Equipment
Ingredients
CAKE
- 1 and ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cups granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup butter unsalted, melted
- ⅓ cup sour cream or buttermilk or Greek yogurt
- ½ cup fresh lemon juice
- 3 large eggs at room temperature
GLAZE
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 2-3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- zest of one lemon
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F°. Grease or place parchment paper in one 8×4 bread pan.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine baking powder, baking soda, salt, and flour. Set aside.
- In a large bowl mix together sugar and lemon zest.
- Add lemon juice and
- vanilla extract and whisk together.
- Add eggs and mix well.
- Add sour cream
- and melted butter. Mix until all wet ingredients are well combined.
- Make a well in the center of dry ingredients and add pour all wet ingredients into the well. Stir with a wooden spoon until just combined (don’t over mix. Batter will be thick).
- Pour batter into the bread pan. Bake 50-60 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean in the center. Wait 10 minutes and then remove the loaf from the pan and place it on the cooling rack to cool completely.
- While the loaf is cooling, make the glaze by adding icing sugar, lemon zest, and lemon juice to a medium mixing bowl and whisking together until combined.
- Pour glaze evenly on top of the loaf.
- Allow it to set. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
Don’t know yet.
I just splash vanilla in regardless of what it says! You can never add too much lol.
Hello Paula
I also was a little confused about the recipe but I followed it as you wrote it. It did call for vanilla extract and lemon juice fresh squeeze and zest. No lemon extract and after you add the vanilla it seems like something else was missing but I just did on my own. The cake is out the oven I am making it for someone so I hope it tastes good it looks more like cornbread. But it could be me and not your recipe I will let you know what they think.
Mmmmm a delicious loaf for sure!
As you probably know by now, the quantity of vanilla extract was not given in this recipe. Why not send out a correction so folks like me don’t get in the middle of trying a recipe and start scratching their heads?
The recipe is correct as written. There is no vanilla extract in this cake. There is lemon juice and lemon extract. In the posts where I mention vanilla extract I’m simply saying to use good quality.
I’m confused also. Number 5 in instructions says to add vanilla?
1 teaspoon of vanilla