Lemon Pound Cake

One lemon pound cake recipe four different flavors!!!!

We have a lemon tree at our house, so heavy with lemons the branches touch the ground.

So am always on the look out on ways to use  lemons, what better way then lemon pound cake.

Lemon in the dough, lemon in the glaze give these mini loaf cakes a delicious citrus flavor.

Pair the lemon with buttery goodness and you have a cake decant enough for special gathering, and

gift giving, but easy enough that you will want to make it to enjoy yourself.

I started with my basic lemon cake recipe, divided the batter among four bowls,

added chocolate to one, cranberries to another, and almonds and poppy seeds

to the third, and left the fourth alone.

You may be asking,  what is pound cake anyway?

Pound cake is a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of four ingredients, flour, sugar,

butter and eggs. Crazy isn’t it?

I strayed from the traditional recipe added vanilla and  didn’t use a pound of anything.

baked them in this cute little mini loaf pans

they are a prefect addition to your holiday cookie tray, also great for gift giving. Wrap the whole thing, mini loaf pan and all  in Christmas gift paper,

tie a ribbon with the recipe on it and you have a home baked delicious gift. I was them to make individual meat loafs.

If you want just one cake you can use a bundt pan. Personally this time of year the mini pans are my favorite for gift giving. Sometimes I use

pretty festive dish towels as wrapping paper.

I like layer cakes, but I like simple better, so most of my cakes are single layer.

Single layer cakes are less labor intense than multiple  layer cakes, I don’t know about you,  me

I like simple, easy desserts that taste delicious, come together in less than a hour but have your friends thinking it took much longer.

These little cakes cake be frozen for year- round gift giving or tea time treats. The point, don’t save this recipe just for the holidays,

it’s prefect all year around.

Ingredients

3 cups flour

2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

3 eggs

2 cups sugar

2 sticks butter at room temperature

1 cup buttermilk

2 tablespoons each lemon rind, lemon juice and vanilla

Instruction

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Coat  four 11 oz. mini loaf pans or 9 inch bundt pan with non sick cooking spray

Beat eggs and sugar until light and fluffy

Add butter, milk, lemon juice,  and vanilla mix until well blended

Mix flour with baking powder, baking soda and lemon rind

Slowly mix flour mixture into liquid ingredients

Bake in a 350 degree oven for 30 minutes if using mini loaf pans 55 minutes if using a bundt pan,

or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Drizzle with a simple glaze by mixing 2 cups of powered sugar with juice of one lemon.

Enjoy!!!!!