Tonight I’m making mini loaves of Lemon Pound Cake for our little man’s teachers (and some of my co-workers as well). This is one of my favorite desserts and is a pretty simple recipe to master. It’s best served warm with vanilla ice cream but is also great cold if you’re in a hurry and need breakfast on the run 🙂 Why not eat cake for breakfast?!

Ingredients:

• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 3 cups sugar
• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup shortening, room temperature
• 5 large eggs
• 1 cup whole milk
• 6 Tbsp lemon juice
• 1 lemon, zested

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Spray or butter and flour 2 loaf pans or one large Bundt pan.
• Sift flour, baking powder and salt into medium bowl.  Set aside.
• Using an electric mixer, cream together butter, shortening and sugar.
• Add eggs one at a time, beating until well blended after each one.
• Add dry ingredients in three additions to butter mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition.
• Mix in lemon juice and zest.