Key Lime Pound Cake From Southern Living Food

KEY LIME POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. 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.
• Stir together flour, baking powder, and 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.
• Bake at 325°F 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.
• Prepare Key Lime Glaze: Whisk together powdered sugar, fresh Key lime juice, and vanilla until smooth. Use immediately.
• Brush Key Lime Glaze over top and sides of cake immediately after preparing. Cool completely (about 1 hour).

KEY LIME POUND CAKE WITH GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Grease and flour a 10-inch tube pan; line with parchment paper.
• Beat white sugar, butter, and shortening together with an electric mixer on medium speed until creamy.
• Sift cake flour, baking powder, and salt together. Add flour mixture, eggs, and cream alternately to the butter mixture, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Beat on low speed just until blended. Stir in Key lime juice, lime zest, and vanilla extract. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 30 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes; remove cake from the pan to cool completely.
• While cake cools, combine powdered sugar, Key lime juice, and vanilla extract in a bowl. Immediately brush glaze over the top and sides of the cake.

KEY LIME POUND CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°.
• Beat butter and shortening at medium speed in an electric stand mixer until creamy.
• Gradually add sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
• In a bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, and 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 tube pan.
• Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 20 minutes or until a pick comes out clean.
• Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 to 15 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack.
• Glaze-whisk together the powdered sugar, lime juice, and vanilla until smooth; immediately brush over top and sides of cake.
• Cool completely (1 hour); garnish if desired.