National Pound Cake Day – Lemon Loaf

Happy National Pound Cake Day, you guys !

What the H is a pound cake?

Pound Cake is the ultimate food, haven’t you heard? It’s great for every time, every season, every occasion, and a slice is a must for every day, if I was the President ?.

Traditionally baked in a tube pan, as the name is pound cake, it really uses a pound each of the ingredients, so bakers go by the ratio of 1:1:1:1

• 1 pound of flour
• 1 pound of butter
• 1 pound of eggs
• 1 pound of sugar

Obviously since the ingredients are plenty, they make a big cake that could feed plenty. It is so rich, a slice would gain you a pound of weight ?

Today’s pound cakes are mostly baked in loaf pan (and people would half the ingredients of their recipe) , just like this following cake of mine, lemon pound cake with delish banana icing on the top.

It is a vegan pound loaf cake and no, I did not use a pound of egg substitutes, too expensive yo! – and no, you cannot subs 9 eggs with 27 tbsp AF, you will get pudding instead a cake ?

Cake

• 1 1/2 c flour
• 3/4 c sugar
• 3 tsp baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• grated of lemon peel
• 100 ml vegetable oil
• 170 ml water
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

How To

• Preheat oven to 375 F
• Grease a loaf pan and line with parchment paper, set aside
• In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, salt, lemon peel, and baking powder

• Make a well in the center and pour in oil, water, essence and juice, mix to combine
• Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 35-45 minutes or until a knife inserted in center comes out clean, cool cake on cookie rack

Banana Icing

• 2 large bananas
• 1/2 c icing sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

How To

• In a heatproof bowl, mash bananas
• Stir in the rest of ingredients
• Using double boiler method, beat icing for 7 mins

• Cool to room temperature
• Spread icing on cake

…and oh, don’t use serrated knife, my first slice was sad ?

Print Recipe

Lemon Loaf

Servings: 0

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 c flour
• 3/4 c sugar
• 3 tsp baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• grated of lemon peel
• 100 ml vegetable oil
• 170 ml water
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Icing

• 2 large bananas
• 1/2 c icing sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp vanilla essence

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375 F
• Grease a loaf pan and line with parchment paper, set aside
• In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, salt, lemon peel, and baking powder
• Make a well in the center and pour in oil, water, essence and juice, mix to combine
• Pour batter into prepared loaf pan and bake for 35-45 minutes or until a knife inserted in center comes out clean, cool cake on cookie rack

Icing

• In a heatproof bowl, mash bananas
• Stir in the rest of ingredients
• Using double boiler method, beat icing for 7 mins
• Cool to room temperature
• Spread icing on cake