Step-by-Step Guide to Make Super Quick Homemade Key Lime Pound Cake

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, key lime pound cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Key Lime Pound Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Key Lime Pound Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook key lime pound cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Key Lime Pound Cake:

1. Make ready batter
2. Take 1 cup butter
3. Make ready 1/2 cup shortening - I used 1 cup
4. Take 3 cup sugar
5. Make ready 6 large eggs
6. Take 3 cup all-purpose flour
7. Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
8. Take pinch salt
9. Get 1 cup milk
10. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla extract
11. Prepare 1 tsp lime zest
12. Take 1/4 cup lime juice
13. Prepare glaze
14. Take 1 cup powdered sugar
15. Take 2 tbsp lime juice
16. Get 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions to make Key Lime Pound Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 325°. Beat butter and shortening at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
2. Stir together flour, baking powder, and 1/8 tsp. salt. Add to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in vanilla, lime zest, and lime juice. Pour batter into a greased and floured 10-inch (12-cup) tube pan.
3. Bake at 325° for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a long wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack.
4. Prepare Key Lime Glaze, and immediately brush over top and sides of cake. Cool completely (about 1 hour).
5. Glaze
6. Whisk together powdered sugar, fresh Key lime juice, and vanilla until smooth. Use immediately.

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