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Lemon Pound Cake

April 6, 2025

The only Lemon Pound Cake recipe you’ll ever need!

• 1 15-cup bundt pan
• 15 minutes
• 50 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup Crisco shortening
• 3 cups (600g) granulated sugar
• 3 cups (360g) AP Flour
• 1 Tablespood baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 5 large eggs
• 1 cup whole milk
• 6 Tablesspoons lemon juice (~2 large lemons)
• Zest from 1 lemon

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Spray or butter and flour a 15-cup Bundt pan.
2. Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a medium bowl.
3. Cream butter, shortening, and sugar.
4. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until well blended.
5. Add 1/3 of dry ingredients
6. Add 1/2 of the milk.
7. Add another 1/3 of dry ingredients.
8. Add remaining 1/2 cup of milk.
9. Add remaining 1/3 of dry ingredients.
10. Once mixed, add lemon juice and zest, and mix until combined.
11. Pour into bundt pan. Make sure there is about 1” of room for the batter to rise.
12. Bake for ~50 minutes.
13. Cool in pan for 15 minutes, then remove from pan and cool completely on a wire rack before cutting.

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