Aunt Aileens Pound Cake Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®).
• Beat white sugar and 1 1/2 cups butter together in a bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy, about 10 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, thoroughly beating each egg into the butter mixture before adding the next.
• Sift flour, salt, and baking soda together in a bowl. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture; mix well. Pour in 1/2 the buttermilk and beat until combined. Repeat adding the remaining flour mixture and buttermilk, beating well after each addition, and ending with the flour mixture. Stir lemon extract into batter. Pour batter into prepared tube pan.
• Reduce oven temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Bake in the oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, 60 to 75 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to a cake platter or plate.
• Beat confectioner's sugar, lemon juice, 2 tablespoons butter, and lemon zest together in a bowl until glaze is smooth. Pour about half the glaze over the cake; let cool. Pour remaining glaze over the cake.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray tube bundt pan generously with Baker's Joy.
• 2. Mix ingredients for cake together until smooth. Do not overmix.
• 3. Pour batter into pan and bake for 55 -65 minutes until done (Use the fork or tooth pick test). Allow to cool for about 10-15 minutes and invert to serving dish.
• 4. While cake is cooling mix powdered sugar and lemon juice to desired texture. It is only a glaze, so it should been a thick nectar consistency.
• 5. Pour glaze over cake a little at a time spreading with the back of a spoon allowing it to soak into the still warm cake.
• 6. Serve warm or room temperature.....it doesn't matter!

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter, sugar, and shortening together with a hand mixer.
• Mix the eggs, one at a time, into the batter.
• In a medium bowl, combine the milk, lemon extract, and vanilla extract.
• In a separate medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Alternately add the dry and wet ingredients into the batter.
• Pour the batter equally into two greased and lightly floured loaf pans.
• Bake in a non-preheated oven set to 350°F (180°C) for 1 hour, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• Cool for 30 minutes before slicing.
• Serve with vanilla ice cream and berries.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300ºF.
• Lightly grease and flour a 10 inch Bundt pan.
• Cream shortening, butter and sugar until light and fluffy with an electric mixer
• (This will take a while).
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Beat in almond extract.
• In another bowl, combine baking powder and flour.
• Stir into creamed mixture alternately with the milk, starting and ending with flour. Pour batter into prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
• Allow cake to cool in pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and flour a loaf tin measuring 22 x 11 x 7cm. Sift the flour with a pinch of salt, bicarbonate of soda and baking powder. Beat the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, then add the lemon zest. Gradually add the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix the buttermilk with the lemon juice. Fold the flour mixture into the batter, alternating with the buttermilk and lemon mixture.
• Scrape the batter into the loaf tin and bake for 40-45 mins, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Leave to sit for 10 mins, then turn out onto a wire cooling rack with a tray underneath it. Set the cake the right way up.
• To make the syrup, put the ingredients in a small saucepan and heat until the sugar has dissolved. Pierce the cake all over with a skewer then, while the cake is still warm, pour the syrup over slowly. Leave to cool.
• Gradually add the lemon juice to the icing sugar and mix until just smooth. If runny, put in the fridge for about 10 mins - you don't want it to set, you just want it become a little firmer. Pour or spread the icing over the cake (the bits that drizzle down the side will be caught by the tray under the cooling rack). This icing won't set hard, but do leave it to set a little before serving.