Who said lemons can’t be sweet? I invite you to try my Lemon Pound Cake with its amazing lemon icing to believe.
It is a recipe that’s super easy to prepare, delicious and could be combined with tea, coffee or enjoyed by itself as a dessert.
- DifficultyEasy
- CostCheap
- Preparation time15 Minutes
- Cooking time1 Hour
- Serving1
- Cooking methodOven
Ingredients
For the cake
- 3 cupsflour
- 3eggs
- 4 teaspoonsbaking powder
- 2 cupssugar
- 1 cupyogurt
- 3/4 cuplemon juice (fresh)
- 1 pinchvanilla
For the icing
- 1 cupconfectioner’s sugar
- 2 spoonslemon juice
- 1 spoonmilk
For the decoration
- 1 spoonlemon zest
Preparation of the Lemon Pound Cake
Cake
First of all, preheat your oven at 150°C.
Furthermore, in a big bowl, mix all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder and vanilla.
In another bowl, with a stand or a hand mixer, incorporate together all the wet ingredients: eggs, yogurt and lemon juice.
Now, start pouring the wet ingredients on the dry ingredients little by little while mixing until obtaining a uniform batter.
Finally, pour the the batter into a buttered and floured cake mold and bake for 150°C for approximately 1h or until a toothpick or a knife comes out clean.
Icing
In a cup, mix the confectioner’s sugar with the lemon juice and the milk until you obtain a white cream.
If you feel like it’s too stiff, add milk. If you feel like it’s too runny, add confectioner’s sugar.
Decoration
When the cake is fully cold, unmold it and with the help of a spoon, drizzle the sugar lemon icing all over its top.
Right afterwards, sprinkle the lemon zest to give the cake a little bit of color.
Let the icing dry and the Lemon Pound Cake is ready to be served.


Advice
– You can conserve the Lemon Pound Cake for approximately one week in a closed recipient.
– You can replace the lemon zest decoration with some brown sugar.
I hope you enjoyed the Lemon Pound Cake recipe.
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Looks so yummy and really helpful recipe thanks for sharing! 🙂
Thank you for your lovely comment 🙂
This looks delicious! I am a huge fan of lemon cake and the icing on top it’s always a great zesty treat, thanks for sharing x
I’m glad you liked it 🙂
I haven’t had lemon pound cake in forever & it looks so delicious! I may have to make it soon!
Thank you!! It really is delicious 🙂
OMG I love a lemon cake and this recipe sounds easy enough for me!
Rosie
Thank you, I’m glad you like it 🙂
Wow, this looks delicious, I’m a huge fan of lemon desserts, they’re just so refreshing at the end of a meal. I can already imagine how this cake would taste with a cup of Earl Grey – thank you for sharing your recipe!
I’m a big fan of lemon too. Thank you for your lovely comment 🙂
I love lemon cake and this recipe sounds super delicious! I’d love to give it a go x
Thank you for your support 🙂
I think I’m the only person ever who doesn’t like lemon cake! Thank you for sharing this recipe though, my sister adores lemon cake and this will be the perfect recipe for her birthday x
I’m glad I contributed with a birthday cake recipe 🙂
Oh wow this looks delicious. I absolutely love lemon flavoured anything so know I’d love this!
Thank you. I’m glad you like it 🙂
Mmmm this sounds positively scrumptious! I love a good pound cake – and if you add lemon, it just gets better! I may need to try this one out soon. I’ve been in the mood to bake a lot lately.
Let me know if you like it once you try it 🙂
I have had lemon pound cake on my mind for the past couple weeks so I am inspired to get baking after finding this recipe! I am tempted to throw in some poppyseeds and ice with lemony buttercream for refreshing hint of the coming spring in every bite!
Thanks for sharing. 🙂
That’s a very nice idea. Let me know how it goes 🙂
I’m not always a big cake fan but this looks so yummy!
I’m glad you liked it 🙂
Yum! I have recently discovered my love for lemon! This looks so delicious. Thank you for sharing. 🙂
Thank you for your lovely comment 🙂
I love lemon cake!! This recipe sounds really good and oh my word, those pictures are definitely making me want to go and find cake now.
Thank you for your comment. I’m glad you like it 🙂
The lemon pound cake looks delicious. It took me back the Entemann’s store bought pound cake. But nothing beats a good home baked pound cake; yours look delicious 😋
Thank you so much for your lovely comment. I’m glad you like it 🙂
Hi, it look deliscious and healthy because it doesn’t have butter. Do you recommend using plain yougurt or can I use light yogurt? thank you,
Hello, I always try to use healthy/low cal ingredients when I can.
As for the yogurt, you can use either the plain one or the light one.