LEMON CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE RECIPE

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The Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe is tender and moist. It’s sweet and simple with a buttery flavoring that melts in your mouth!

With just six basic cake ingredients, this is THE BEST pound cake recipe!

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

 

This is my Mom’s cake recipe. She always either made this Cream Cheese Pound Cake or a Sour Cream Pound Cake. For years, I thought it was the only Pound Cake recipe.

Old-fashioned desserts seem to be making a resurgence. My Pound Cake series has been very popular (especially my Cream Cheese Pound Cake recipe) as well as other old-fashioned desserts that I’ve shared. My Old-fashioned Butter RollOld-fashioned Sugar Pie, and Old-fashioned Rice Pudding are some of the most popular recipes on callmepmc.com.

LEMON CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE RECIPE

I’ve started a series on callmepmc.com of making, testing, and reviewing Pound Cake recipes. You can read all the posts and get the recipes here.

Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe has a very silky texture. A small crumbs that are even smoother than the Whipping Cream Pound Cake. The outside of this pound cake does not have a crispy texture like the Whipping Cream Pound Cake. However, it’s just as flavorful.

It’s a very easy pound cake to make. Even though I used a generous one tablespoon of lemon extract in my Cream Cheese Pound Cake, it does not have a lemon flavor. The one and a half cups of butter give it a butter flavoring instead. Also, as I found in this cookie recipe that uses cream cheese, the cream cheese actually complements and intensifies the butter flavor. That’s a good thing!

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The video below is for my Old Fashioned Blue Ribbon Pound Cake. However, the mixing method is the same as for this Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe.

More Tips for Cream Cheese Pound Cake

If you truly want a lemon flavor, I suggest adding two tablespoons of lemon extract as well as 2 tablespoons of lemon zest to the recipe listed below. Furthermore, for Cream Cheese Pound Cake with classic vanilla and buttery taste use vanilla intead of lemon extract. It is very good and I highly recommend this recipe.

This Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe yields a moist cake that’s dense and slightly sweet. If you crave more sweetness, glaze the cake with a mixture of confectioners’ sugar, milk, and flavoring.

Get all my Pound Cake recipes here.

CAN I FREEZE CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE?

Pound cake is great for freezing. Wrap it up tightly with aluminum foil or plastic freezer wrap and store it in the freezer for 4 to 6 months.

CAN I BAKE THIS POUND CAKE IN 2 LOAF PANS?

Yes, you can bake this cake in two 8 x 4-inch loaf pans. The cooking time will be 60 minutes add time as needed.

Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe
Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe is tender and moist. It's sweet and simple with a buttery flavoring that melts in your mouth!

Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe

Lemon Cream Cheese Pound Cake Recipe is tender and moist. It’s sweet and simple with a buttery flavoring that melts in your mouth!
Author: Paula
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Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings: 16 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 and 1/2 cups butter room temp (How to soften butter)
  • 8 ounce cream cheese room temperature
  • 6 large eggs room temperature
  • 3 cups granulated white sugar
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoon lemon extract

Instructions

  • Coat a 10 cup tube pan or bundt pan with solid vegetable shortening and sugar or Wilton cake release.
  • Preheat oven to 350°F
  • In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth.
  • Add sugar and beat until fluffy. The mixture will lighten in color slightly.
  • Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition.
  • Slowly add flour to the mixture and combine.
  • Add lemon extract and combine.
  • Pour batter into prepared pan.
  • Bake 60 to 70 minutes or until pick inserted in center comes out clean or with ‘dry’ crumbs.
  • Allow to cool on the countertop on a wire rack 15 minutes before inverting on a serving tray. Cool completely on the counter before covering in an airtight container. Store in air-tight container on the counter-top for 3 to 4 days.

Notes

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Nutrition

Calories: 462kcal | Carbohydrates: 56g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Cholesterol: 140mg | Sodium: 228mg | Potassium: 79mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 38g | Vitamin A: 837IU | Calcium: 34mg | Iron: 2mg
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71 Comments

  1. Hello this cake look yummy will bake it later thank you for sharing your recipe 👏

  2. Delicious! I will use the recipe again and again, experimenting with different flavors! I baked it for 70 minutes as suggested and the results were just perfect. Thank you for sharing the recipe!

  3. 5 stars
    I typically only bake pound cakes! Regular sour cream, vanilla pound cakes, chocolate sour cream pound cakes and This AMAZING Lemon Cream Cheese pound cake! It quickly went to the top of my list for friends and family! Make sure you use real lemon flavoring and not imitation, if they even make lemon imitation flavoring! You are in for a treat! 🍋

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