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Friday 16 November 2012

Lemon Pound Cake

I've been cooking something delicious for the past few days, but I just been lazy to take shots of it .... though I wanted to share it with you what I have been cooking!!  

Well, at home, everything is me, me, me...... doing all the house chores, cleaning, washing, ironing, cooking, baking, typing the office work at home.  So sometimes, I have to juggling running up and down, doing this, then doing that.......

So to find solace... and away from stress, I will bake eventhough sometimes I'm tired after the housework!  Hee...hee...
To make something simple for my tea break today, I have baked a Lemon Pound Cake..... a recipe from Okashi...sweet treats made with love



Lemon Pound Cake 
Recipe from Okashi...sweet treats made with love

Ingredients
150g cake flour
1/8 tsp baking powder
150g unsalted butter, soften (room temperature)
150g icing sugar
1/8 tsp salt
3 eggs (about 150g), beaten lightly
1 lemon, grated for zest


Preheat oven to 170C.
Line a 19cm x 9cm loaf pan with parchment paper.

Sift flour and baking powder together twice.  Set aside.

Beat butter, icing sugar and salt together in an electric mixer until light, fluffy and pale.  Gradually add eggs and beat well.

Add flour and baking powder mixture and fold through completely using a spatula.  Surface of batter should be glossy and smooth.

Pour batter into prepared cake pan and make a lengthwise dent in the middle with a spatula.
Bake cake for about 50 minutes.




 Does it look like the original one....from the Okashi cookbook?  Hee...!!





 

14 comments:

  1. Mel,
    You baked your Lemon Pound Cake so beautifully.
    Looking just the same as the book.
    I also love your cow mug and your lovely duckling..:p
    Have a lovely weekend..:)

    mui..^^

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    1. Mui mui, thank you for your compliments! If you bake pound cake in a loaf pan, just make a dent lengthwise in the middle and will bake beautifully...

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  2. Mel, it really looks exactly like the one in the recipe book. Thumbs up!

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    1. Hi Chef
      Just pleased that it came out looking exactly like the book...hee...hee... thanks for your compliments!

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  3. i thought that lemon pound cake jump up from the book!! look exactly the same! I also love your cow mug, where did you buy this?

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    1. Hi Sonia,
      Hee....hee....so sweet of you saying this.... the cow mug I bought it at "Mr. DIY" for $5.50. Does your area has Mr DIY? They have quite cheap and nice things there. U want me to get for you?

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  4. Mel, I love your pound cake! Must be so lovely and lemony. The cake's twin must be the one in the book :) I also like your two very happy ducklings. They are so excited over your cake :)

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  5. What a lovely looking lemon pound cake. It look exactly like the one from the book. Great job!!! This is my kind of cake. Love anything lemoney.

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  6. mmm.. looks good ^^ and exactly like the one in the book! nice and golden ^^

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  7. Lovely pound cake! Sometimes the call of simplicity is just too hard to resist!
    Have a great weekend!

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  8. I love this type of cake! Your cake looks just like the cookbook!Lemon is my fav fruit,rich in vitamin c

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  9. Exactly the same as in the book! This looks really great!i think many of us here too find baking is something we do to take away some stress from our daily chores :)

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  10. look very nice! Thanks for sharing. Will try it soon.

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  11. Such a fine resemblance to the original. Yes, I too bake to destress!

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