Lemon pound cake

Name: Lemon pound cake
Total time: 7200 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Nigerian
Ingredients: 200 grams all purpose flour; 200 grams unsalted butter; 200 grams whole eggs; 200 grams sugar; 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Cookingwithseki @cookingwithseki

Abuja

So the traditional pound cake i discovered is almost fail proof for a baking novice in terms of it's simplicity when it comes to measurements and ingredients. As all your measurements (flour, eggs, sugar and butter) just needs to weigh a pound weight, hence the name “pound cake”.
But then i did not want that much quantity of cake so I told myself I would do 200grams measurement all round. And it came out spectacular!! So i am guessing this should be called half pound cake 😀. I so love it!!!
I did not make use of baking powder so I had to sieve the flour several times to aerate it so it can rise (5 sieves).
The lemon juice gave it an unbelievable taste and everyone kept asking for more!! 😀😀

Cookingwithseki @cookingwithseki

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Ingredients

120 mins

4 servings

200 gramsall purpose flour
200 gramsunsalted butter
200 gramswhole eggs
200 gramssugar
2 tablespoonsfresh lemon juice

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Steps

120 mins

1

Beat sugar and butter until light and fluffy
2

Add the eggs each at a time while mixing on low speed
3

Mix just until the egg yolk is incorporated. Do not over mix after adding the eggs
4

Add the sieved flour ( very important to sieve your flour several times since no baking powder is used in other for the cake to rise.
5

Then fold in the flour using a spatula. Do not use a mixer to mix in the flour as that might cause the gluten in the flour to develop and lead to a bread-like cake
6

Add the lemon juice and fold in still with the spatula
7

Continue to fold in the lemon until you get a smooth thick batter. Note that for a traditional pound cake the only liquid needed is the egg.
8

Grease the baking pan with shortening properly
9

Dust some all purpose flour on the greased pan
10

Add the batter
11

Bake in a preheated oven for 1hr 30minutes to 2hrs. Note that pound cake takes hours to bake because of the think batter consistency.
12

Remove from oven and let stay in baking pan for 3-4 minutes before removing from pan and cooling on a cooling rack