Lemon Pound Cake

Ingredients:

• 3 cups flour
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• ¾ tsp salt
• 2 cups sugar
• 1.5 cups butter, room temperature
• 5 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 2 lemon's juice & zests

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 325ºF.
2. Butter and flour 2 loaf pans or one bundt pan
3. In large bowl, cream together butter, sugar & zest
4. Beat in eggs
5. Mix in milk
6. Mix in salt & baking powder
7. Mix in flour 1 cup at a time
8. Mix in lemon juice
9. Pour into prepared pans
10. Bake until toothpick in center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
11. Cool cakes in pans for 15 minutes.
12. Turn cakes out onto racks and cool completely.

Optional Glaze:

Mix together

• 1½ cups powdered sugar
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• 2 Tbsp metled butter

Drizzle over loaves

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