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!
This is my Mom’s cake recipe. She always either made this
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 Roll, Old-fashioned Sugar Pie, and Old-fashioned Rice Pudding are some of the most popular recipes on callmepmc.com.
LEMON CREAM CHEESE POUND CAKE RECIPE
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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
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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
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
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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
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Save To Your Recipe BoxIngredients
- 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.
May I add lemon pudding mix to the cake to add a more lemony flavor? I don’t have fresh lemons.
lemon pudding will change the texture
Do I use salted butter or non salted or it doesn’t matter.
You can use either. I always use salted, it’s a personal preference.
I make this cake, excellent, thank you very much for sharing the recipe!
I made this cake as a bday present for one pf the ladies at church and I also bake them for my church on Fellowship Day.
So easy, and so very moist. Very delicious.
AWESOME Lemon pound cake!! Followed your directions precisely with the lemon extract & lemon zest. Can’t wait to try the strawberry buttermilk pound! Thank you for sharing your recipes.
This is the easiest lb cake I’ve made…I’ve made about 5 before…having room temp ingredients did make a difference and the batter never got so thick that the mixer got stuck like in the past…its still cooling can’t wait to taste it with homemade whipped cream
Amazing. I just tried your recipe. It turned out so good. Thank you for your recipe!!
Excited to try it will let you know today.
No baking powder?
No the eggs leaven the cake