Grammy's Kitchen · Pound Cake · Lemon Pound Cake
One of 63 pound cake recipes we measured
from sugarspunrun.com
64 cooks on sugarspunrun.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 63.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 71% | 94% |
| total sugar | 250% | 167% |
| egg | 69% | 83% |
| leavener | 1% | 1% |
| salt | 1% | 1% |
| liquid | 23% | 34% |
| dairy | 86% | 57% |
| acid | 9% | 0% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 227 g | 1 cup unsalted butter (softened ) |
| 227 g | 8 oz cream cheese (softened (use full-fat cream cheese that is sold in bricks, not the spreadable kind sold in tubs) ) |
| 500 g | 2 1/2 cups granulated sugar |
| 2.5 Tablespoons lemon zest | |
| 250 g | 5 large eggs (room temperature preferred) |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 1 teaspoon lemon extract (optional, see note) | |
| 360 g | 3 cups all-purpose flour |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon baking powder |
| 4 g | 3/4 teaspoon salt |
| 82 g | 1/3 cup buttermilk |
| 400 g | 2 cups powdered sugar |
| 28 g | 2 Tablespoons butter, melted (salted or unsalted will work) |
| 31 g | 1-3 Tablespoons lemon juice (plus additional as needed) |
| 1 g | 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract |
Method: 10 steps, published by sugarspunrun.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I made this with 1:1 gluten free flour and it turned out great. Maybe slightly more dense than normal, but my kids demolished both loaves in just a few days! King Arthur GF 1:1 or Bob's Red Mill (the blue bag) have both worked great for me with no other change” — a cook, 5.0★
“This cake is sooooo yummy! It is moist and so pretty...my hubby grabbed a slice and ran into the garage to work and ran back inside a minute later and gave me a kiss and said...this cake is soooo delicious! I WILL be making this on repeat for the summer....” — a cook, 5.0★